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What Really Happened During COVID? Part 1

I’ve been puzzling over some Statscan data over the last few days, trying to make sense of what happened to the youth labour market during COVID.  And it’s…well, it’s pretty odd.  Not the story you usually hear. Let’s start with what happened to labour market participation.  Figure 1 shows the monthly employment rates for full-time students, comparing the 2020 and 2021 results (at least up to August of this year) to the average of the years 2016 through 2019.  What

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October 5, 2021 No Comments

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (2) – Funding Challenges Forever

Yesterday, I described some of the big changes of the past 18 months; today I will talk a little bit about the first of the three big trends that we need to watch for over the next few years.  This one I call “Funding Challenges Forever”. Around the world, COVID has had two distinct financial impacts on institutions.  In countries where the vast majority of funding came from governments (mainly, but not exclusively, Europe), the COVID shut-down had very little

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September 28, 2021 1 Comment

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (1)

Back in July, I was kindly invited to a conference sponsored by the Perspektywy Foundation in Warsaw to give a talk about the future of global higher education after COVID.  Over this week, I want to recap that talk and provide some analysis about the main policy trends affecting higher education of the next few years.  Not all these trends will affect countries equally (for reasons that will become apparent) but I think they probably capture the biggest pieces of

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September 27, 2021 1 Comment

Back With a Jab

Morning all.  Ready to go?  No, me neither.  But the show must go on. It’s going to be a busy few weeks.  Our annual State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada comes out on Thursday.  We’ve got an election on September 20th, which may have some pretty significant consequences for post-secondary education (the childcare accords of the last few months are hugely consequential for higher education in a way that has not properly been appreciated, and I’ll be writing on that subject later

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August 30, 2021 1 Comment

Fall 2021: Stop Fooling Around

On Tuesday, TV Ontario’s estimable COVID pundit John Michael McGrath – the one who back in February absolutely eviscerated the Ontario government with its own data on how the February re-opening was going to cause a third wave – wrote another wonderful piece on the subject.  But this one was not a pessimistic piece; rather it made a measured and sober case for optimism about this summer and, by implication, the fall.  I am going to quote the start of it because it is

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May 20, 2021 5 Comments

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