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A New Conservative Government

[the_ad id=”12740″] As you may have possibly heard, we had an election in Ontario the week before last. The Progressive Conservative Party led by Doug Ford won and will be sworn in on June 29th (i.e. after this blog goes dark for the summer). It will be another few weeks, or more likely months, before we get a clear picture of what this new government intends to do on post-secondary education.  Nevertheless, here is a brief thumbnail of what we can

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June 18, 2018 No Comments

A Decline in Apprenticeships?

[the_ad id=”12709″] A few years ago, I made the observation that Canada’s big run-up in apprenticeship numbers was highly correlated with the commodity price super-cycle (in particular, the price of oil) and that an era of low energy/commodity prices might lead to a big decrease in demand for apprentices.  Time to check on that prediction. So, first thing to note is that apprentice numbers are down a bit over the last couple of years.  Probably not as much as expected if one

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June 14, 2018 1 Comment

Ontario (Dumpster Fire) Manifesto Analysis

You may have heard that there is an election on in Ontario.  I tried my best to leave the province for the duration but I’m back now, and holy Moses I wish I weren’t.  It is truly godawful.  A dumpster fire, as the kids say.  But duty calls, and so, forthwith, the traditional HESA platform analysis. Let’s start with the Liberals, whose platform on higher education is essentially that from the last budget: a commitment to a student aid program of targeted

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May 29, 2018 No Comments

An Excellent Idea

Good news!  There is now a litmus test in Ontario to see which interest groups and/or political parties – if any – actually care about expanding access to post-secondary education and which just prefer grandstanding about tuition and/or student aid.  And that test is whether or not anyone will bother to endorse the recommendations put forward by Carleton’s Jennifer Robson in her paper Post-Secondary Access: Better Life Chances for Ontario’s Children, published last week by U of T’s School of Public

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April 30, 2018 1 Comment

Enough, Ontario

Our usual annual round-up of provincial budgets will come Wednesday, right after Saskatchewan posts its numbers, but as I was writing a draft of the piece I realized it makes almost no sense to talk about national trends in provincial funding without looking at what is going on in Ontario, because to a large extent it drives the national numbers.  And what is going on in Ontario – what has been going on in Ontario – over the past decade

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April 9, 2018 2 Comments

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