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1M ago
Last Tuesday, the OECD published Education at a Glance, 2024. As usual, there is a whack of interesting comparative data …
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2M ago
One thing you occasionally hear from governments is complaints about the inefficiency of post-secondary education programs. This is distinct from …
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2M ago
Morning all. It’s the Wednesday after Labour Day and that means, as usual, that it’s release day for The State …
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HESA » Students
5M ago
Just a note that I am at the CAUBO Conference in Montreal today…if you are attending, do drop by my session today after lunch and say “hi.”
Yesterday I sketched out a possible research agenda for Canadian higher education. Today, I am going to sketch out how we can best achieve this.
What needs to be done at the National level
The most important thing we could do is replace the Youth In Transition Survey. This was a longitudinal survey which followed two cohorts of youth for 12 years from 2000 onwards. The younger of these two cohorts was also the first Canadian cohort to take the no ..read more
HESA » Students
5M ago
There is so much about Canadian higher education that we don’t know. Today, a list of the most important unknowns that I think are most important, organized by broad topic.
Who Gets Into Post-Secondary Education: Also, Where and Why and For How Long?
Our data on who gets into post-secondary education has got a little bit better in the last little while. For instance, check out this interesting piece by Tomasz Handler, Aneta Bonikowska and Marc Frenette which looks at Bachelor’s degree access and completion by ethnicity. But you know what we still have very little idea about? Access b ..read more
HESA » Students
5M ago
I was just running the numbers on student debt in Ontario. They are interesting.
Time used to be that the Provincial government published these numbers on its own. This Ontario open data set has data from 2003-04 to 2011-12. Since then, I have been filing FOI requests and the government have been providing identical basis. Figure 1 shows the results, according to the administrative data held by the Government of Ontario. Turns out that based on this data—which should be the most accurate available—student debt in 2020-21, far from “skyrocketing,” was actually right about where it was in 2003-0 ..read more
HESA » Students
6M ago
Note: This blog is adapted from a talk I gave to the U21 Network’s COO Network yesterday at McMaster University
There has been a lot happening lately in the world of student mobility and international mobility. Seems like a good time to take a minute and look at the big picture.
Let’s start on the side of the “sending” countries. Data for China in the last couple of years is pretty spotty—a lot of the “information” you see comes from surveys conducted by private sector companies which survey very specific populations and sometimes come to opposite conclusions. As best as can be ascer ..read more
HESA » Students
6M ago
Last week Statistics Canada came out with a damn good paper on post-secondary access and persistence which I thought was worth highlighting. The paper is called Enrollment and Persistence in Postsecondary Education Among High School Graduates in British Columbia: A Focus on Special Needs Students, and it was written by Allison Leanage and Rubab Arim. It was made possible by linking together two databases: the Post-Secondary Student Information System (PSIS), which contains unit-record data on all post-secondary students in Canada and can be used to follow students longitudinally through the sy ..read more
HESA » Students
9M ago
I was playing around with Labour Force Survey data this past weekend (as one does) and found some stuff worth sharing. Ready? Let’s go.
First, let’s look at student employment rates. One of those things that “everyone knows” is that student employment levels are continually rising. Bur in fact this is anything but true: data shows that the employment rate of full-time students, at around 40%, is pretty much what it has been since the turn of the century. There was an increase, but it took place over 30 years ago, in the decade or so before 1990. Part-time students, on the other hand, saw a dec ..read more
HESA » Students
9M ago
A few weeks ago, I was at a session which brought together several folks in the enrollment management business. It was kind of an open-mike session, in which people could bring up topics that seemed most troubling and most in need of addressing. So, the topic turned immediately to the preparedness (or more accurately the lack thereof) of incoming students. Pretty much without exception, from the most to least selective institutions in the room, there was consensus that this was a huge and increasingly disruptive issue, forcing universities to make changes to first and second ..read more