By Alex Usher. OK, so the Ontario government rolled out its tuition/OSAP announcement and it’s big enough I should probably cover it, so apologies if you were looking forward to the second part about millennials – I’ll pick that up next week. More...

By Alex Usher. When it comes to education and the labour market, universities (well, the bits outside the professional schools, anyway) like to say they are in the business of preparing students not for their first job but for their fifth, or (more grandiosely), “preparing them for life”. More...

By Alex Usher. In total, college revenues were just over $11.5 billion, in 2016-17, compared to $38 billion for universities. More...

By Alex Usher. You may have heard that there is a Conservative government in Ontario.  You may also have heard that it is, shall we say, keen on reducing government expenditures. More...

By Alex Usher. Yesterday was one of those days when I completely lucked out.  There I was, having just published a piece on possible scenarios on what the Ontario government might do in post-secondary education, when suddenly various news outlets began reporting that a new tuition framework was due to be announced later this week. More...

By Alex Usher. Unless you’ve been under a rock the last decade or so, you will be familiar with the line of argument that millennials are a uniquely put-upon (or, in the vernacular, “screwed”) generation. More...

By Alex Usher. Yesterday I riffed on the possibility of a Skills Budget. Today I want to focus on some early clues about what’s in the upcoming budget by parsing last month’s pre-budget consultation report of the House of Commons Finance Committee. More...

By Alex Usher. Morning all.  Happy New Year.  Welcome back.  I’m in Southeast Asia this week taking in some sights.  Travel in Asia always makes me think a lot about the ways in which different parts of the world conceive of higher education and the extent to which we both have and haven’t overcome these divisions today. More...