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COVID, PISA and So On

A few weeks ago, I was at a session which brought together several folks in the enrollment management business.  It was kind of an open-mike session, in which people could bring up topics that seemed most troubling and most in need of addressing.  So, the topic turned immediately to the preparedness (or more accurately the lack thereof) of incoming students.  Pretty much without exception, from the most to least selective institutions in the room, there was consensus that this was

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December 11, 2023 3 Comments

Visible Minority Students in Canadian Post-Secondary Education

Kudos today to Statistics Canada, which is gradually producing useful information using its new Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP).  Last Thursday it put out – weirdly, in conditions of almost total secrecy – a new set of tables looking at visible minorities and ethnicity in Canadian post-secondary education. This dataset required linking individual record data from the Post-Secondary Student Information System (PSIS), which does not record any data about ethnicity, with individual record data from the census, which

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October 30, 2023 3 Comments

A Brief Look at International Students in Canada, Part 2

Yesterday, we looked at what and where international students studied in Canada. Today, I want to zero in a bit on where international students are from. Let’s start with the issue of country of origin.  Care is required because the data gets a bit tricky: there are something like 135,000 students in Canada who are of dual origin. They are Canadian students, but they also have citizenship in another country.  In this post I will focus on the nation or

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September 27, 2023 2 Comments

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
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