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A Flawed Report on Sexual Violence

You may remember a couple of years ago I expressed some concern about the structure of a survey on sexual harassment and sexual violence being designed by the Ministry of Training Colleges and University in Ontario.  In particular, I was concerned that by trying to go for a census rather than a sample, they would in fact get lower overall data quality (why do a census of a superficial quant survey when you could cut costs by sampling and use

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March 22, 2019 2 Comments

Advice for Young Student Politicians

At most Canadian universities, student election season is about to start.  So, today, a quick note for anyone out there thinking about joining the ranks of student representatives.  First, if you’re in Ontario, you need to know there’s no guarantee at all about what kind of organization you might be heading.  No one knows how the fee opt-out (opt-in?) system will work and what effects it will have on union finances.  Few student unions have reserves for more than a couple of

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January 31, 2019 1 Comment

That Ontario Tuition/OSAP Announcement

OK, so the Ontario government rolled out its tuition/OSAP announcement and it’s big enough I should probably cover it, so apologies if you were looking forward to the second part about millennials – I’ll pick that up next week. The Government backgrounder is here, but in brief here’s what was announced: 1)      As widely leaked earlier this week, universities and colleges have been told to reduce tuition by 10% in every program for which they receive public subsidies.  This does not apply

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January 18, 2019 7 Comments

Speak of the Devil

Yesterday was one of those days when I completely lucked out.  There I was, having just published a piece on possible scenarios on what the Ontario government might do in post-secondary education, when suddenly various news outlets began reporting that a new tuition framework was due to be announced later this week.  And it was a doozy: according to the report, the Conservative government was planning on reducing tuition in all regulated programs (ie. excluding international students and the graduate and

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January 16, 2019 3 Comments

Ontario: Best-case/Worst-case Scenarios

You may have heard that there is a Conservative government in Ontario.  You may also have heard that it is, shall we say, keen on reducing government expenditures.  Further, you are aware that a provincial budget is traditionally delivered sometime between February and May.  So, naturally, you are asking yourself: what might the new government’s budget mean for post-secondary education?  What are the best-case and worst-case scenarios? I can’t claim much here in the way of inside information.  There are

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January 15, 2019 No Comments

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