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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

What if We Have Been Measuring Student Debt Wrong All Along?

I was just running the numbers on student debt in Ontario. They are interesting. Time used to be that the Provincial government published these numbers on its own. This Ontario open data set has data from 2003-04 to 2011-12. Since then, I have been filing FOI requests and the government have been providing identical basis. Figure 1 shows the results, according to the administrative data held by the Government of Ontario. Turns out that based on this data—which should be

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June 3, 2024 3 Comments

The Global Outlook for International Education

Note: This blog is adapted from a talk I gave to the U21 Network’s COO Network yesterday at McMaster University There has been a lot happening lately in the world of student mobility and international mobility. Seems like a good time to take a minute and look at the big picture. Let’s start on the side of the “sending” countries. Data for China in the last couple of years is pretty spotty—a lot of the “information” you see comes from surveys conducted

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May 22, 2024 4 Comments

A Smart Paper on Access and Persistence

Last week Statistics Canada came out with a damn good paper on post-secondary access and persistence which I thought was worth highlighting. The paper is called Enrollment and Persistence in Postsecondary Education Among High School Graduates in British Columbia: A Focus on Special Needs Students, and it was written by Allison Leanage and Rubab Arim. It was made possible by linking together two databases: the Post-Secondary Student Information System (PSIS), which contains unit-record data on all post-secondary students in Canada

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May 13, 2024 No Comments

Students and the Labour Market: It’s Better Than You Think

I was playing around with Labour Force Survey data this past weekend (as one does) and found some stuff worth sharing. Ready? Let’s go. First, let’s look at student employment rates. One of those things that “everyone knows” is that student employment levels are continually rising. Bur in fact this is anything but true: data shows that the employment rate of full-time students, at around 40%, is pretty much what it has been since the turn of the century. There

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February 13, 2024 No Comments
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