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Two Rankings Stories You May Have Missed

Today I want to discuss two interesting developments in rankings, one purely American and the other intriguingly transatlantic. The first is a new set of rankings published by Third Way, a vaguely centre-left Foundation based in Washington DC under the direction of Michael Itzkowitz, an Obama administration appointee who directed the creation of the College Scorecard. Suffice to say Itzkowitz has spent a long time thinking about how to use data to compare colleges’ efforts with respect to public policy

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February 2, 2022 No Comments

The South Korean Student Aid Miracle

Last week, we did a piece on Canadian student financial assistance over the years.  Today, I want to jump across the Pacific to South Korea, because that country’s student aid system undergone some incredible policy shifts over the past 15 years. I truly think South Korean student aid policy might be one of the biggest stories in higher education finance anywhere in the world in the past decade, and it has, hitherto gone completely unnoticed by most in the rest

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January 31, 2022 No Comments

Kota Factory > The Chair

Some – most? – of you probably watched The Chair on Netflix last term (for the uninitiated, it’s Sandra Oh playing Ji-Yoon Kim as she runs an English Department at what appears to be a bottom-of-the-top-tier liberal Arts College in the US Northeast).  Reaction to the show was justifiably mixed: it got a few important things right about academia, but it did so in an irritatingly unrepresentative setting – my kingdom for a campus drama not set at a private

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January 13, 2022 No Comments

Faculty Salary Data, 2020-21

We haven’t looked at faculty salaries in awhile, so let’s do that. Getting a handle on recent faculty salary data is easy: it’s the one thing that Statscan does both rapidly and well in the higher education field.  It may take them 30 months to produce student enrolment data, and they collect no data at all about college tuition or non-academic staff, but by gum they can process university salary data in under 12 months! (Yes, this does tell you

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January 11, 2022 1 Comment

World Access to Higher Education Day

Today is World Access to Higher Education Day, and I thought it would be fun to use the occasion to celebrate the massive expansion of higher education that has occurred in the last decade and a half, while suggesting some reasons why the expansion may be running out of steam.  Before we begin: all the data in this comes from HESA’s forthcoming publication: World Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Finances, which is scheduled for release January 25th, 2022.  It is

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November 17, 2021 2 Comments

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