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Category: Students

What Students Want to Be

…when they grow up, that is. It’s a question we don’t ask that often. Yet since one of higher education’s supposed purposes is to give students a leg up in the search for work, it’s the kind of thing you’d think we’d want to know. So, anyways, using our CanEd Student Research Panel, we asked 1280 students across the country about their employment futures. For starters, we asked them what sector they saw themselves as destined for. Expected Employment by

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May 25, 2012 2 Comments

Does Debt Affect Career Choice?

A lot of hypotheses about the negative effects of student debt (some of which I was responsible for, 15 or so years ago), have, over time, been shown to be wrong. The one about debt being a serious deterrent to access, for instance (at least at current levels of borrowing); or the one about how increased student debt delays family formation. But what about the hypothesis that higher levels of student debt might leading students to take “jobs that pay

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May 22, 2012 1 Comment

Size Matters

Did this make it through your spam filters? Here’s hoping. Ok, so everyone knows from even a casual glance at student satisfaction data that there’s a correlation between institutional size and satisfaction. Students, on average, prefer small schools to big schools. Makes them feel more at home. Less of a leap from high school. The accompanying small class sizes don’t hurt either (the relationship between size and satisfaction is of course one reason why the Globe and Mail’s Canadian University

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May 18, 2012 2 Comments

The Deal

After twelve weeks and a marathon negotiation session on Saturday, it appears the bitter Quebec student strike is approaching its end. The deal: – Tuition increase of $1,778 over seven years ($127 per semester). – Eligibility for student loans and grants expanded over and above existing plans. – A provisional committee on university finance will be struck, consisting of six university representatives, four student representatives, two union reps, two business community reps, and one representative each from the province’s CEGEPS

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May 7, 2012 No Comments

Student Stereotypes in Four Graphs

We all know about stereotypes when it comes to students: computer science students resemble characters from The Big Bang Theory, arts students are inordinately fond of hackie-sack, etc. But is there any truth to this? Well, there is some, as it turns out. About a year ago we asked our CanEd Student Research Panel a series of questions about their attitudes toward academic challenges. The answers we got were interesting because of the way they broke down by field of study.

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May 4, 2012 3 Comments

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