Topic: Public policy
Reviewing Ontario’s university funding
The rationale for reviewing and reforming the way we fund universities.
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Higher education and growing inequality
Rather than a tool of social mobility, higher education now reinforces inequality.
READ MORECongress 2015: The Canadian higher education data problem
Every year at the Canadian Society for Studies in Higher Education (CSSHE) meeting, you can count on someone – or a lot […]
READ MORECongress 2015: “Athens to the new Romes”
Yesterday, the Governor General of Canada, David Johnston gave a lecture as part of Congress 2015‘s Big Ideas lecture series. The topic […]
READ MORECongress 2015: The one-sided higher ed conversation
There are missing voices in the public conversation around higher education, and it is hurting our ability to articulate alternative visions for […]
READ MOREPerformance funding: The burden of proof
When a policy is proposed, the burden of proof lies with the people making the proposal. They need to explain why the […]
READ MOREAlex Usher Needs to Consider Taxation
In my previous Academic Matters blog post, I argued that there are five advantages to universal access to financial assistance for post-secondary […]
READ MOREResponding to Nick Falvo on tuition fees
Recently, on my daily blog, I wrote an analysis (link to: http://higheredstrategy.com/whos-progressive/) of distributional effects of tuition reductions versus those of targeted […]
READ MOREAlex Usher is Wrong on Tuition Fees
One of Canada’s best-known post-secondary education pundits, Alex Usher, recently wrote a blog post suggesting that Canada’s status quo system of high […]
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