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A Brief Look at International Students in Canada (Part 1)

A few weeks ago, I realized that I’ve never really written a good blog on where and what international students study in Canada.  Think of today’s blog as my way of making amends.  (Note: this is Statscan enrolment data and so refers to enrolments in the fall of 2020, roughly 36 months ago.  Assume that things have changed somewhat since then). Let’s start with the question of what international students study and how this has changed over time.   Figure 1

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September 26, 2023 3 Comments

Demography, Incentives, and the Future of Canadian PSE

Let’s start with a little history. Figure 1 shows the evolution of the youth population (aged 18-21) in Canada from 1971 to 2022.   The remarkable thing here is that this demographic group peaked over 40 years ago.  What that means is that pretty much all the nearly tripled increase in domestic enrolments in the last four have come from increasing participation rates rather than population growth. Figure 1: Population Aged 18-21, by Region, Canada, 1971-2022 This growth has not been

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September 25, 2023 3 Comments

Back to School, September 2023

Good morning, and welcome back for another year.  I’m pretty excited for the next few months.  Let me take you through how things are going to go, both in Canadian postsecondary education and here on the blog. In an ideal world, the next few months would lead to an all-out push on new investments in scientific research.  The buying power of national investments in research – which were still pretty good as recently as 15 years ago – are now

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September 5, 2023 No Comments

Counting the Previously Uncounted

Morning all.  No podcast today: we had some scheduling difficulties that require us to switch up Monday’s blog to today, and the interview on Saudi Arabia with Annalisa Pavan to Monday.  Our apologies. Earlier this week, the good folks at Statscan released i) a pretty cool infographic about students in private post-secondary education in Canada and ii) a remarkably nerdy piece, technically a report on a “pilot project,” about how they came up with the numbers in the infographic.  Strangely, it didn’t publish

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June 8, 2023 1 Comment

The Bailiffs Are at the Door

Just a short one today, because I am spending my Sunday on a flight to Almaty and have less time than usual to blog. Last month, I wrote “The Bill is Coming Due”.  It largely revolved around the theme that Canadian PSE institutions were too dependent on international students and that relatively minor failures in recruitment were now causing institutions real harm.  Also last month, I wrote about Ontario colleges and how they were killing the Golden Goose of international

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June 5, 2023 5 Comments

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