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Prince Edward Island in a Nutshell

Faithful readers will probably recall the “nutshell” series we produced last year (see here if you want to refresh your memory), in which we profiled 8 provinces’ post-secondary education systems before running out of time towards the end of the year, thereby disappointing some readers in Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan.  However, fear not!  We’re going to finish up this month, starting out east with the Island. To begin with student numbers: Prince Edward Island is the only province in

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September 1, 2022 No Comments

Quebec in a Nutshell

All right, we’ve done seven of these and it’s time to look at Canada’s outlier province.  You know, the one where every time you try to explain Canada to someone in another country and you have to say “of course, it’s usually different in Quebec.” Let’s start with student numbers.  Quebec is, relatively speaking, the least university-based system in the country.  Just under 45% of all postsecondary students in the province are enrolled in CEGEPs, and as recently as 2001-02 university

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June 7, 2022 No Comments

Newfoundland and Labrador in a Nutshell

Morning folks.  Today we’re going to look at the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. As I demonstrated here, it is a lot like Alberta in its hydro-carbon related boom-and-bust funding cycles, but quite unlike it in its demographics and student numbers. Let’s start with student numbers.  Newfoundland and Labrador faced adverse demographics for post-secondary education for decades now, so simply keeping numbers steady is a bit of a triumph.  When the government reduced and then froze tuition in 2000, the province’s

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June 2, 2022 No Comments

Ontario in a Nutshell

All righty then: so far in this nutshell series we’ve avoided writing about the two “big” provinces, but since Ontario is going to the polls this week, we thought it made sense to tackle that province today, before we get to the manifesto.  Let’s start with student numbers.  You need to remember that Ontario is big.  Where post-secondary numbers are concerned, it has an even bigger footprint than it does in terms of physical size or population.  43% of all university

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May 30, 2022 No Comments

New Brunswick in a Nutshell

Morning everyone.  Today’s edition of the Nutshell series features one of the more anomalous provinces in Canada (from a higher education perspective, at least), the one whose beaches Le Monde once referred to as “Canada’s Riviera”: New Brunswick! New Brunswick’s anomalous status is mostly centered around the issue of enrolment: it is the only province in Confederation that has seen effectively no growth over the past two decades.  This is not to say that there have been no changes –

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May 24, 2022 1 Comment

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