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StatsCan Enrolment Day 2021

Last Wednesday was StatsCan Enrolment Day, 2021.  Now, this does not of course mean that we now have data on enrolments for 2021.  That won’t happen for another couple of years.  No, what it means is that we have data for 2019-20, so we are only about 25 months behind reality instead of the 37 months behind that we were last Tuesday. (StatsCan is capable of faster work.  Heck, it can get university tuition fee increases more or less right

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November 29, 2021 1 Comment

World Access to Higher Education Day

Today is World Access to Higher Education Day, and I thought it would be fun to use the occasion to celebrate the massive expansion of higher education that has occurred in the last decade and a half, while suggesting some reasons why the expansion may be running out of steam.  Before we begin: all the data in this comes from HESA’s forthcoming publication: World Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Finances, which is scheduled for release January 25th, 2022.  It is

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November 17, 2021 2 Comments

Experimental Evidence on Student Assistance

One of the things I am proudest of in my career is the role I played – almost 20 years ago when I was at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation – in trying to start a tradition of evidence-based research in Canadian higher education.  And by evidence-based, I don’t just mean creating better statistical bases to describe systemic inputs and outputs, I mean actual experimental evidence regarding how certain treatments/policies work. For those of you not up on the concept

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November 9, 2021 2 Comments

What Really Happened During COVID? Part 1

I’ve been puzzling over some Statscan data over the last few days, trying to make sense of what happened to the youth labour market during COVID.  And it’s…well, it’s pretty odd.  Not the story you usually hear. Let’s start with what happened to labour market participation.  Figure 1 shows the monthly employment rates for full-time students, comparing the 2020 and 2021 results (at least up to August of this year) to the average of the years 2016 through 2019.  What

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October 5, 2021 No Comments

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