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Matt Ormandy; Alexa Ferdinands; Autumn Nesdoly; Maria Mayan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This qualitative pilot study introduces and reflects on early development and implementation of the Zero Fee Tuition (ZFT) program in the rural, oil and gas town of Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada. This innovative, primarily municipally funded program, implemented in 2019, provides local students with up to $5,000 in free tuition for select…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tuition, Educational Finance, Tuition Grants
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Li, Xiaobin – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2023
Ontario's special education grant increased from $1.6 billion in 2002-2003 to $3.2 billion in 2020-2021, representing approximately 12.5% of the overall education funding. Although demands to increase special education funding continue from an equity and inclusion standpoint, students with exceptionalities are at risk of lower achievement. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Grants, Special Education
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Sue Winton – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
I compare arguments mobilized for and against a policy to publicly fund private schools, including religious private schools, in Alberta and Ontario, Canada, and highlight how the arguments reflect each province's historical, ideological, and social contexts. Grounded in Maarten Hajer's argumentative discourse theory and based on findings from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Finance, Religious Schools
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Augusto Riveros – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
This study investigates the extent of portable classroom use in the province of Ontario between the years 2010 and 2020. The research uses administrative data obtained from the Ontario Ministry of Education and from the 27 largest school boards in the province. The findings reveal that portable classrooms are used as long-term solutions to address…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mobile Classrooms, Crowding, Educational Finance
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McDermid, Paulie; Winton, Sue – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
The establishment of the Commission on Private Schools in Ontario in 1984 renewed long-standing debate over public funding of the Canadian province's public schools. Engaging Maarten Hajer's discourse coalition approach and argumentative discourse analysis, we demonstrate how actors with disparate -- sometimes even competing -- goals and values…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Equity (Finance), Private Schools, Public Schools
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Pearce, Joshua M.; Tiwari, Shardul; Pascaris, Alexis S.; Schelly, Chelsea – Cogent Education, 2022
To accelerate scientific progress by advancing the spread of open access and free and open source software and hardware in academia, this study surveyed university professors in Canada to determine their willingness accept "open source (OS) endowed chair professorships." To obtain such an "open source endowed chair," in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Endowment Funds
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Thériault, Virginie; Mercier, Jean-Pierre – Ethnography and Education, 2023
This article explores the ethical dilemmas encountered by two ethnographers in adult education research in a context where neoliberalism impacts on education settings, policies, and social justice. Everyday ethical dilemmas arise in thorny situations in which the general ethical principles ethnographers are regulated by cannot help them react or…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Ethics, Adult Education, Researchers
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Kelsey Harvey; Anthony McDermott – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2023
In 2020, McMaster University's students-as-partners (SaP) program shifted operations to a grant-funded model. To understand what, if any, influence this programmatic change had on student, staff, and faculty partners, we sought to critically evaluate this new model. Toward this aim, we conducted an institutional ethnography and survey of student,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Cooperation, Teacher Student Relationship
National Association of College and University Business Officers, 2022
The "2021 NACUBO-TIAA Study of Endowments" (NTSE) provides the most comprehensive analysis of endowment investment returns, asset allocations, and governance policies and practices at hundreds of U.S. higher education institutions and affiliated foundations. The report provides extensive data to help institutions evaluate their…
Descriptors: Endowment Funds, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Governance
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Ramani, Srikanth; Henne, Deidre; Kotsopoulos, Donna; Dickson, Brandon A.; Boyd, Carson; DeDecker, Braeden; Hill, Ryan – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2022
In this research, we explore responsible investing in Canadian Universities. Interviews were conducted with 31 universities that were identified as having endowments or pension portfolios greater than $50M. We also reviewed publicly available data for these institutions. Universities reported facing numerous barriers but perhaps most noteworthy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investment, Educational Finance, Universities
Cummins, Phyllis A.; Harrington, A. Katherine; Yamashita, Takashi – Adult Learning, 2022
Access to lifelong learning opportunities has long been discussed in terms of the economic benefits conferred by access to and engagement in further education by members of the labor force, particularly within the global knowledge economy. However, equitable access to lifelong education opportunities, particularly for low-skilled adults in the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Educational Finance, Financial Support
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Ampa Kaewkumkong – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2022
Since 2004, China has contributed an increasing amount of annual financial aid to Cambodia, especially from 2010 to 2012. Cambodia's increasing budget shortages in education from 2014 to 2018 motivated its government to seek development aid from abroad. In the context of the ongoing rise in China's overall budget aid to Cambodia, this research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Budgets, Financial Support, International Relations
Lochner, Lance; Liu, Qian; Gervais, Martin – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
This paper uses new administrative data with detailed borrower information and lengthy repayment histories from the Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP) to measure rates of return on undergraduate student loans. We document substantial heterogeneity in returns based on information available at the time loans were disbursed, including province of…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Foreign Countries, Loan Repayment, Outcomes of Education
Kuehn, Larry; Vaitekonyte, Jolanta – British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2019
The amount of tuition paid by international students to British Columbia (BC) public school districts in the 2017-18 school year reached $256,829,094. That is an increase by nearly $15 million compared to last year. This represents about 5% of total district revenues provincially, but the bulk of gains are concentrated in just 10 districts in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Tuition, Public Schools
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Nichols, Naomi; Hayes Tang, Hei-hang – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
This article conveys the results of a reflexive investigation of the managerial practices and entrepreneurial discourses that shape the academic trajectories of early career scholars. Beginning with the experiences of early career scholars in research-intensive universities in Canada and Hong Kong, the authors explore some of the social and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Entrepreneurship, College Faculty
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