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Pivot

One of the more interesting higher ed books I’ve read so far this year is Pivot by Mark Lombardi and Joanne Soliday.  It’s not a brand-new book – it came out a few months before COVID – but its tales of small institutions transforming themselves (usually) in the face of overwhelming enrolment and financial pressures are still very fresh and reading their stories is worth anyone’s time. The four institutions covered in this book are, with one exception, places few

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May 16, 2022 2 Comments

How to Answer Questions About WIL

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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June 10, 2020 2 Comments

Why Does WIL Work?

A friend of mine asked me a deceptively simple question the other day: “why does Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) work”?”   What are the possible reasons that students with WIL experiences do better than others in common outcomes such as “higher starting salaries” or “faster transition to full-time work” (take your pick)?  This is a really good question because the answer is nowhere near as straightforward as you might think. One possible answer – the one that seems to be popular in Ottawa these

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June 9, 2020 1 Comment

WIL is the Way

One of the lasting impacts of the COVID virus is going to be the destruction it has wrought in the youth labour market.  There are two main problems: first, the virus has most strongly affected the tourist and service industries in which students most commonly find work, and second, the recession is inevitably going to play havoc with the kinds of entry level jobs that young graduates normally get.  What should universities and colleges do? Simple: double down on work-integrated

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June 1, 2020 1 Comment

What to Look for in Tonight’s Budget

At 4 PM EST, Finance Minister Bill Morneau will rise in the House of Commons to deliver his fourth budget, and the last one before a federal election in the fall.  What can we expect from the budget on the big PSE-files?  Here’s a quick rundown. Transfer Payments: Status quo. Research: My guess is that there are small goodies in this budget, if only to give them an excuse to reprint everything they did last year in this year’s budget

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March 19, 2019 No Comments

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