You all know I complain a lot about data in Canada. So today, I thought I’d assemble a wish list: a set of priorities for developing a better system of higher education data, along with some thoughts about how these measures could be implemented as part of a larger, overall accountability agenda Now, I am going to focus on the need for new data but there is a lot that could be done to make better use of existing data.
Co-authored with Tiffany MacLennan Yesterday, Tiffany MacLennan and I took a look at Canadian survey data on student finances over the past 20 years. Today, we want to take a look at some of the data about their living arrangements and their social lives over the same period. If you haven’t read yesterday’s piece and want to know more about the data’s provenance and some caveats that go with it, click on that link and then come back. Let’s start
Written in collaboration with Michael Sullivan Good morning, all. Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year. It’s an interesting half-full half-empty story, but with some very important future implications. Figure 1
One of the best – and yet perhaps most confusing – ways to look at the current state of today’s students is to look at the Canadian version of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey, which is done every three years. I want to take you through a quick comparison of the 2013 and 2019 surveys (each of which were taken by tens of thousands of Canadian students, so it’s a good sample), because I think there is a
Yesterday, I looked at some reasons why WIL works. Today, I would like to talk about how we might answer larger questions about the extent to which WIL works (or, more accurately, what the impacts of individual aspects of WIL experiences look like). The case for WIL “working” in terms of labour market outcomes largely rests on data for co-op placements, and then kind of assuming that WIL is “co-op lite” (which is sort of true, sometimes). C.D. Howe Institute’s
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