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The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2024

Morning all. It’s the Wednesday after Labour Day and that means, as usual, that it’s release day for The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, by Janet Balfour and yours truly (with a big assist from Jiwoo Jeon). You can download it in all its glory here. In many recent years, I have used this document to talk about international students and the increasing role they play in Canadian post-secondary finance, but I figure you guys have probably heard that

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September 4, 2024 3 Comments

A Research Agenda for Canadian Higher Education, Part 2

Just a note that I am at the CAUBO Conference in Montreal today…if you are attending, do drop by my session today after lunch and say “hi.” Yesterday I sketched out a possible research agenda for Canadian higher education. Today, I am going to sketch out how we can best achieve this. What needs to be done at the National level The most important thing we could do is replace the Youth In Transition Survey. This was a longitudinal survey which followed

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June 5, 2024 1 Comment

A Research Agenda for Canadian Higher Education, Part 1

There is so much about Canadian higher education that we don’t know. Today, a list of the most important unknowns that I think are most important, organized by broad topic. Who Gets Into Post-Secondary Education: Also, Where and Why and For How Long? Our data on who gets into post-secondary education has got a little bit better in the last little while. For instance, check out this interesting piece by Tomasz Handler, Aneta Bonikowska and Marc Frenette which looks at Bachelor’s degree

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June 4, 2024 3 Comments

Research Outcome and Impact Data

Every couple of years I do a piece looking at how Canadian institutions compare in terms of research output and impact using data from the CWTS Leiden Rankings, which happen to be the most transparent system of bibliometric research rankings out there. It’s that time again. So, just to remind people what the CWTS Leiden ranking actually is: the good folks who do scientometrics at the University of Leiden annually put together a wide variety of bibliometrics measures for about

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April 30, 2024 1 Comment

Alberta’s Bill 18

A lot of people are getting very upset about this. Personally, I think the bill itself is not really what’s objectionable here and most of what people are working themselves into a lather about. What is Bill 18? It’s meant to be a mirror of a piece of legislation in Quebec known as M-30 (English version here). What M-30 does is that it effectively forbids all sub-provincial public entities from receiving money from the Government of Canada without checking first

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April 16, 2024 1 Comment

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