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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

20 Years of Data on Canadian Undergraduate Students – Part 1

Co-authored with Tiffany MacLennan Last week, I examined undergraduate student debt using data from the triennial survey of graduating students undertaken by the Canadian University Survey Consortium (CUSC).  Today and tomorrow, along with Tiffany MacLennan (one of HESA’s many rockstar analysts), I am going to put that same data source to use to look at other aspects of university financing. So, just to remind everyone: CUSC is a 20-something year-old coalition of the willing, which is roughly 30-odd institutions who

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September 22, 2021 No Comments

Inter-provincial Student Mobility

We talk a lot about international student mobility in Canada.  But what about inter-provincial student mobility?  Let’s go find out. In 2018-19, the last year for which data is available, the proportion of Canadian undergraduates who were studying in another province was about 8.4%.  As Figure 1 shows, this proportion has been increasing very slowly for the last thirty years (the precipitous drop in 1996-97 has to do with Quebec universities not reporting data in that year, something which I am pretty

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August 31, 2021 3 Comments

Customers

On the off chance you’re wandering through the halls of academia (non-COVID halls, anyway) and feel like picking a fight with another wanderer, the best advice I can give you is to use these three words: “students” “are” “customers”. See?  Half of you probably want to fight me right now.  But what I want to argue today is that while there are circumstances where that three-word statement is untrue, for the most part it is not untrue in the way

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May 18, 2021 3 Comments
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