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The Jacinda Ardern Legacy

It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time for episode 2 of The World of Higher Education podcast.  Today my guest is Dave Guerin, Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of Tertiary Insight, a higher education news service based in Wellington.  Our subject: the higher education record of recently resigned New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Ardern came to power promising to eliminate tuition fees over the course of three terms in office, only to reverse course after one term, with the promise

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February 9, 2023 No Comments

One Podcast to Start Your Day-Newfoundland and Labrador

Good morning.  In exciting news, One Podcast to Start Your Day can now be found on all of your favourite podcast apps and includes a RSS feed. This episode, and the two previous ones, can be found here: https://anchor.fm/optsyd. Today we have different version of One Podcast to Start Your Day.  We invited Dale Kirby to our virtual table for a one-on-one discussion of post-secondary education in Newfoundland and Labrador. Dale’s background as a Professor in the Faculty of Education

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December 1, 2022 No Comments

The Affordability of Canadian Universities, Part 3

It turns out that a lot of you really hate the idea that Canada might be experiencing some success with respect to affordability in universities.  Critics seem to focus mostly on one of two factors.  I will deal with the first criticism today and leave the second to tomorrow. Let’s start with the time frame issue.  The problem is the availability of data.  Statistics Canada’s current data on student “tuition and fees” only goes back to 2006-07, but with only

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November 14, 2022 No Comments

The Affordability of Canadian Universities, 2020, Part 1

The affordability of higher education is vital for the accessibility of higher education.  Unfortunately, much of the debate around affordability is conducted in terms simply of prices, and usually inflation-unadjusted ones at that.  But while price is an input to affordability, it is not the whole story.  In fact, it is exactly half the story: the numerator, if you will.  The other half, the denominator, is capacity to pay.  And yet for some reason we almost never bring this into

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November 8, 2022 4 Comments

Another Australian Fee Revolution?

To Australia, where big things may be afoot.  One thing about Australian higher education politics is that they tend not to do small reforms, regardless of which party is in power.  Where undergraduate fees are concerned, it looks like there might be another big shift, so let’s look at the current state of play. Here’s the first thing you need to understand about undergraduate fees in Australia: they don’t work like fees anywhere else in the sense they are not

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November 3, 2022 No Comments
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