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How Not to Argue About Free Tuition (New Zealand Edition)

Yesterday, I talked a little bit about how Canada needs better data to improve understanding of what various types of intervention – like Alberta’s tuition freeze or Targeted Free Tuition in Ontario and New Brunswick –do in terms of access.  But data is not enough: it’s a necessary condition, but not a sufficient one.  An example from our friends down in New Zealand can perhaps show why. We are coming up on the first anniversary of the implementation of free first-year

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November 29, 2018 No Comments

Wānangas, Tribal Colleges, and Canadian Indigenous PSE Institutions

A little over a year ago, Ontario brought in legislation to create the country’s first system of Indigenous universities.  In the upcoming federal budget, it seems possible that the Government of Canada may look at ways to finance Indigenous post-secondary education as well.  The question I want to look at today is what model or models of Indigenous higher education Canada might want to borrow from when developing its own system(s). Internationally, there are essentially three models for systems of

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November 16, 2018 No 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

Antipodean Tuition News

All the really interesting news about tuition these days is happening south of the equator–let’s catch up. Chile.  When last we checked in on things in Santiago, we noted how President Bachelet’s gratuidad program had kind of foundered on the rocks of reality.  Having brought in free fees for the students in the bottom six income deciles at a cost of 607 billion pesos (roughly $1.25B Canadian), it turned out that the additional cost to make education free for the top four deciles

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December 14, 2017 No Comments

Who’s More International?

We sometimes think about international higher education as being “a market”. This is not quite true: it’s actually several markets. Back in the day, international education was mostly about graduate students; specifically, at the doctoral level. Students did their “basic” education at home and then went abroad to get research experience or simply emigrate and become part of the host country’s scientific structure. Nobody sought these students for their money; to the contrary these students were usually getting paid in some

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November 24, 2016 1 Comment
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