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Ontario Colleges (Yes, Again)

If you want a peek into how I spent my days, come, join with me on a quest to try to get Canadian institutional data in less than 3 years.  It’ll be fun, I promise.  It’s about Ontario Colleges, which are never not interesting. Let me show you two graphs which take us right up to the point where our national statistics agency’s data leaves off, 2019-20 (yes, really).  The first is international students as a percentage of Ontario’s total

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September 12, 2022 2 Comments

Ontario Provincial Election Manifestos 2022

Thursday is election day in Ontario and somehow, a Conservative government that spent the last two and a half years managing the pandemic with a clownish and occasionally malevolent incompetence seems poised to win another four years with a majority government.  Still: I do these manifesto reviews come hell or high water, so here we go. Let’s start with the fact that the NDP and Greens both agree that the Ford cuts to OSAP need to be reversed, all three

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May 31, 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 Graduate Outcomes Data

I haven’t written about graduate labour market outcomes recently, and the good folks at the Council of Ontario Universities just published some new data on the class of 2018, so today seems like the day to come back to this topic. The main reason to use Ontario data to do this is because a) it’s available, b) it provides a useful amount of breakdown by discipline and c) it has a nice long time series.  The Statistics Canada Education and

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April 14, 2022 No Comments

Ontario Applications Data 2022

Here are three interesting nuggets from last week’s Ontario University Application Centre’s data release. Long Term Trends Students, on average, are applying to a lot more institutions than they used to.  To wit, since 2016, the average number of applications per applicant was 4.7.  It’s now 5.6.  Figure 1: Direct-From-High-School Applications and Applicants, Ontario, 2012-2021 This doesn’t just mean an extra $5 million to OUAC in fees: it affects the way we have to analyse data from institutions.  You probably

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January 24, 2022 No Comments

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