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International Student Externalities

You may have seen the news from California regarding a lawsuit by a well-to-do Berkeley resident against the University of California which has forced the latter to reduce its 2022 enrolment by 2,600 students.  Basically, the plaintiff – a well-to-do local who spends half his time in Nelson, New Zealand – said that too many students were destroying the neighbourhood and sued the university over its enrolment plans, using the California Environmental Quality Act.   A lower court agreed with the

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March 21, 2022 2 Comments

Ontario Applications Data 2022

Here are three interesting nuggets from last week’s Ontario University Application Centre’s data release. Long Term Trends Students, on average, are applying to a lot more institutions than they used to.  To wit, since 2016, the average number of applications per applicant was 4.7.  It’s now 5.6.  Figure 1: Direct-From-High-School Applications and Applicants, Ontario, 2012-2021 This doesn’t just mean an extra $5 million to OUAC in fees: it affects the way we have to analyse data from institutions.  You probably

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January 24, 2022 No Comments

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
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