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May 25, 2022 · The decision to take a gap year between high school and PSE is an important one in the long term. Students who take a gap year may face high opportunity costs since they often substitute one year of lower-paying, pre- PSE work for one year of higher-paying, post- PSE work.
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Jul 28, 2023 · This fact sheet provides metrics on how young Canadians move from largely compulsory secondary education, into and through their postsecondary experiences and finally onto the labour market. It brings together the latest indicators that can provide insight into these pathways.
- Will The Explosion of Remote-Based Learning Lead to More Options For Students?
- Which Learners Are Most Vulnerable to Disruption?
- Will Online Learning in Canada Still Appeal to International Students?
- Can Job-Ready Skills Be Cultivated Through Online Learning?
- Can Learning on A Massive Scale Become More Personalized?
- Are Post-Secondary Institutions at An Inflection Point For Their Business Model?
- What We’Re Watching
The simple answer is ‘yes.’ The longer schools remain unable to teach the way they used to, the more sticky remote-based learning will become. Students and educators will want to retain the experiences and tools they like. Post-pandemic, institutions can expect to have a tougher time attracting students. With students realizing they can learn from ...
As online education requires both personal digital devices and strong internet connections, students that lack access to either are most vulnerable to losing out. About one in four Canadian households in lower-income categories use smartphones as their primary internet access. Roughly 10 percent of households – mostly in rural areas – lack reliable...
This remains to be seen, and is a critical question: international students are big business for our schools. If they are unable to enter Canada, we will need to find new ways of marketing a Canadian credential to non-residents. At the start of 2020, over 640,000 foreign nationals held study permits; while at least 293,000 new permits were issued i...
Without question, learning remotely develops skills that employers demand. It requires students to manage their time effectively, strengthen their written communications and foster a digital aptitude to work alongside technology. And right now, the biggest lessons students are gaining aren’t academic; it’s about being resilient and adaptive. These ...
If it can’t, students are more likely to disengage. While online learning requires scale to be profitable – such as classes of hundreds or thousands of students – it must offer learners personalized experiences. The market for EdTech is as hot as it’s ever been, with VC activity reaching US$3 billion in Q1 2020, or about the entire value of deals i...
COVID-19 may precipitate the largest pivot in the delivery of higher education we’ve ever seen. Enrolment and revenue declines, combined with increased costs in technology, will force institutions to innovate. Those that can’t will be left behind. First, we cannot ignore the transformation schools made to get over two million learners online in Mar...
Canada’s higher education system has an opportunity to transform, to become a global player in online education, even in a post-pandemic world. To differentiate itself, things to consider: 1. Collaborations among universities, colleges and polytechnics on common digital learning platforms, as well as shared online curricula. 2. Proposals to moderni...
Canada’s higher education data challenges stem in part from the decentralized nature of our federal system, but in truth, Canadian governments and statistical agencies simply do not care about producing high-quality data on education the way some other countries do. Our data on community colleges in general is weak.
Aug 4, 2020 · In two years, public policy related to post-secondary education will have likely advanced to responding more directly, and with greater coordination, to the role of post-secondary education in a world of increasingly precarious and unpredictable work.
Oct 18, 2020 · Shrinking government funding. Ontario has among the lowest funding levels per student in Canada at the post-secondary level.
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Nov 3, 2023 · The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada 2023. This represents roughly 7% of the entire population, a figure that is larger than the population of the four Atlantic provinces put together, or the combined workforces of the construction and manufacturing industries. [...]
