By . You would be forgiven, over the past 24 months or so, for growing ever more confused about when tuition is “free” and when it is not. The reason, in part, is that “free” tuition is in the eye of the beholder. More...
5 mars 2016
5 mars 2016
House-Buying Power of Academic Salaries
By . A couple of weeks ago, the Times Higher Education put together a cute infographic showing how many square metres an academic salary bought in different parts of the world (the full article is here). I thought I would try the same thing for here in Canada. More...
5 mars 2016
The Dollar Quandary
By . If you haven’t been hiding under a rock these last few months, you may have noticed that the US dollar is on a roll. And it’s not just on a roll in Canada, where the price of oil has reduced the value of our own currency; since mid-2014, the US dollar is up over 20% against a trade-weighted basket of currencies. This creates some interesting conundrums and strategy options for pricing international education. More...
5 mars 2016
Consumerism Dragging Down Student Achievement? Not so Fast
By . So, there was an interesting article from Studies in Higher Education making the rounds on social media yesterday. Written by a trio of UK researchers, the article is entitled “The Student-as-Consumer Approach in Higher Education and its Effects on Academic Performance”, and is – miraculously – available ungated, here. More...
5 mars 2016
Some Curious Student Loan Numbers
By . Every once in awhile, it’s good to go searching through statistical abstracts just to see if the patterns you take for granted can still be taken for granted. So I recently went hunting through some CSLP annual reports and statistical abstracts to see what I could find. And I’m glad I did, because there are some really surprising numbers in the data. More...
5 mars 2016
Two Simple Reasons Tuition Rises Have Little Effect on Access
By . It’s that time again, when boards of governors are thinking about tuition for the upcoming year; and as a result, people will be rehearsing their arguments for and against tuition increases. The basic argument against is the rather simplistic, “higher fees means lower participation”. And it’s wrong. More...
5 mars 2016
Asleep at the Switch…
By . … is the name of a new(ish) book by Bruce Smardon of York University, which looks at the history of federal research & development policies over the last half-century. It is a book in equal measures fascinating and infuriating, but given that our recent change of government seems to be a time for re-thinking innovation policies, it’s a timely read if nothing else. More...
5 mars 2016
The Economics of Interdisciplinary Programs at Small Universities
By . A minor kerfuffle blew up yesterday in Sackville when the coordinator of Mount Allison University’s Women’s and Gender Studies announced that, due to budget cuts, she had been informed that the university would no longer be offering classes in this program, as of next fall. Cue petitions, angry students, a buzzfeed listicle, etc. More...
5 mars 2016
Lessons from Scandinavia on the Value of Tuition Fees
By . Whenever you hear somebody complaining about higher education funding in Canada, it’s usually only a matter of time before someone says “why can’t we be more like Scandinavia?” You know, higher levels of government funding, no tuition, etc., etc. But today let me tell you a couple of stories that may make you rethink some of your philo-Nordicism. More...
5 mars 2016
The Dilemma of Western Education in Saudi Arabia
By . I see that Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne recently took offense to the fact that Algonquin College is operating a male-only vocational college in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, calling the arrangement “unacceptable”.
What should we make of this?
First of all, let’s be clear about women and higher education in Saudi Arabia. More...
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