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Re-litigating New Brunswick’s Tax Credits

Note: A version of this post appeared in the Telegraph-Journal (paywall applies) To Fredericton, where the new Conservative Government had its Throne Speech on Tuesday.  The key line for post-secondary education (which, for the most part, was ignored) was this one:  Your government will undertake an evidence-based review of existing programs supporting post-secondary education and compare and contrast their effectiveness with the canceled broad-based tax credits.  (nb. the tax credits were cut to create a Targeted Free Tuition program, described here among other

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November 22, 2018 No Comments

“Innovative” Funding Mechanisms

Adapted from a talk delivered yesterday at the 14th FICCI Higher Education Summit in New Delhi, India. If you spend any time talking higher education policy in developing countries, the talk turns pretty quickly to the subject of “innovative methods of financing”. It’s easy to see why: money is always short, quality higher education costs a lot, and so these systems are always terribly squeezed.  Anyone holding out hope for “innovations” always gets a ready audience. The problem is that actual innovations

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October 31, 2018 No Comments

Free Tuition Tomfoolery at CCPA

[the_ad id=”11745″] The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) put out its Alternative Federal Budget last month (earlier and much shorter than usual, for reasons I don’t understand).  As has been the case for the last couple of years, the AFB included a “free tuition” program.  Basically, their idea is a conditional transfer to provinces to “eliminate tuition fees in all programs” on condition that provinces “match their share of the cost” and observe some as-of-yet non-existent Canada Post-Secondary Education

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October 3, 2018 2 Comments

“Free Fees” in New Zealand

New Zealand recently became the darling of a certain wing of the post-secondary world when it’s new Labour Government, led by Jacinda Arden, translated a second-place finish in the 2017 election into government (via some deft coalition negotiations) and proceeded to implement a free-tuition plan. Tuition-free universities aren’t new to New Zealand; in fact the whole country was more or less tuition free until 1991.  It was in that year that a former Labour government (of an unusually pro-market, privatizing

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September 27, 2018 2 Comments

Targeted Free Tuition: A Global Analysis

Good morning, all. Today, HESA is publishing (jointly, with the Higher Education Policy Institute in London, England) a paper entitled, Targeted Free Tuition: A Global Analysis. This paper is the product of months of surveying an emerging trend in government-financed student aid and what is arguably the most important new idea in higher education financing currently floating around the world. We posit that Targeted Free Tuition (TFT) might be the most progressive student aid policy, simultaneously eliminating tuition-based financial barriers

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September 20, 2018 4 Comments

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