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29 octobre 2017

McMaster > McGill?

By Alex Usher. The Shanghai Rankings (technically, the Academic Ranking of World Universities) came out a couple of weeks ago. This is the granddaddy of all international rankings; the one that started it all, and still perceived as the most stable and reliable measure of scientific hubs; essentially it measures large concentrations of scientific talent. And there were some very interesting results for Canada, the most intriguing of which is the fact that McGill has fallen out of Canada’s “top 3”, replaced by McMaster. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Did CIBC Really Just Call for Lower Tuition?

By Alex Usher. Last week, HuffPost ran a story highlighting a newsletter from CIBC Economics about higher education. It was actually a pretty meandering letter (CIBC Economics pieces on higher education are usually notable for their interesting use of data and somewhat shallow understanding of actual policy – here’s an earlier example). More...

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29 octobre 2017

Canadian University Finance Statistics (2015-16 Edition)

By Alex Usher. The 2015-16 version of Financial Information of Universities and Colleges Survey (which, confusingly, doesn’t include community colleges) was released over the summer. As in previous years I’m going to do a little summary of what it tells us about how income and expenditure has change over one year and five years. Just so we’re all clear, all figures here are in real (i.e. inflation-adjusted) dollars. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Tuition Fees in Canada, 2017-18

By Alex Usher. So, yesterday was the annual tuition fee data dump from Statscan. Probably worth it to go over the data just a bit to see what the story is. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Two Approaches to Student Success

By Alex Usher. I’ve recently been doing a little bit of work recently on student success and I am struck by the fact that there are two very different approaches to student success, depending on which side of the Atlantic you are sitting on. I’m not sure one is actually better than the other, but they speak to some very different conceptions of where student success happens within an institution. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Who Should Benefit from Skills Training Money?

By Alex Usher. We seem to be in a period in Canada where money for “skills” is in vogue, mainly because it is seen as a panacea for lots of quite separate problems. At a really high-order level, you’ve got the Innovation ministry in Ottawa pounding the drum on skills because the tech industry says skills are a bottleneck to whatever kind of tech-powered Nirvana the Minister imagines Canada to be headed towards. More...

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29 octobre 2017

The Nordstrom Philologist

By Alex Usher. People are always nattering on about skills for the new economy, but apart from some truly unhelpful ideas like “everyone should learn to code”, they are usually pretty vague on specifics about what that means. But I think I have solved that. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Why we should – and shouldn’t – pay attention to World Rankings

By Alex Usher. The father of modern university rankings is James McKeen Cattell, a well-known early 20^th-century psychologist, scientific editor (he ran the journals Science and Psychological Review) and eugenecist. In 1903, he began publishing American Men of Science, a semi-regular rating of the country’s top scientists, as rated by university department chairs. He then hit on the idea of counting how many of these scientists were graduates of the nation’s various universities. More...

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29 octobre 2017

That Andrew Scheer Free Speech Promise

By Alex Usher. You may recall that a few weeks ago I profiled the higher education/science/youth proposals of the various Conservative Party leadership hopefuls. More...

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29 octobre 2017

National Patterns of Student Housing

By Alex Usher. Anyways, my take on this is basically that you need to take into consideration several centuries worth of history to really get the Canada-US difference. Well into the nineteenth century, the principal model for US higher education was Cambridge and Oxford, which were residential colleges. More...

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