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Bonikowska, Aneta; Frenette, Marc – Statistics Canada, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid and substantial increase in unemployment and to uncertainty about future job prospects. Despite this increased uncertainty, parents' expectations that their children will pursue postsecondary studies remained high during the lockdown--91.7% of children whose parents were surveyed in May or June 2020 were…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Postsecondary Education, Parent Attitudes
Pizarro Milian, Roger; Einmann, Trisha; Bader, Danielle; Walters, David; Brown, Robert S.; Parekh, Gillian – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The development of cost-efficient pathways is a topic of increasing political and scholarly interest across many North American jurisdictions. It has been suggested that 'seamless' transfer pathways can provide financial savings to both students and taxpayers. However, such claims are typically based on hypothetical cost calculations, as opposed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Student Loan Programs, Paying for College
BC Student Outcomes, 2022
Every year, the BC Student Outcomes Program collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2022, over 28,500 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented in this report. 90% of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
BC Student Outcomes, 2021
Every year, BC Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2021, just over 29,500 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented here. In 2021, 92 percent of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
BC Student Outcomes, 2020
Every year, BC Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2020, more than 29,000 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented here. In 2020, 92 percent of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
BC Student Outcomes, 2015
Information from the BC Diploma, Associate Degree, and Certificate Student Outcomes (DACSO) Survey can be used to look at the impact of increasing post-secondary education costs on student borrowing and the use of other funding sources. For many years, the DACSO Survey has been asking former students about how they paid for their studies: what…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Student Employment
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2019
Budget 2019 brings welcome investments for students. It does not address however, key challenges facing Canada's colleges and universities, resulting from stagnant government funding for core operating costs. Budget 2019 commitments to making post-secondary more affordable average around $650 million per year for five years and include investments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Budgets, Federal Aid
Kirby, Philip – Sutton Trust, 2016
This study compares tuition funding arrangements, debt at graduation, and earnings outcomes for full-time domestic undergraduates in eight Anglophone countries: the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland), United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. According to multiple estimates, the average English student faces…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Ferguson, Sarah Jane; Wang, Shunji – Statistics Canada, 2014
Knowledge and skills are increasingly important to innovation, productivity, economic growth and competitiveness. For Canada, a better educated population and a highly skilled workforce are vital to ensure successes in the face of growing global competition. Higher education can provide individuals with knowledge and skills needed to participate…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment, Debt (Financial), Cooperative Education
Chambers, Tony; Bolton, Melissa; Sukhai, Mahadeo A. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2013
This study examined the education-related debt, sources of debt, and the process of acquiring accommodations for students with non-apparent (such as learning disabilities and mental health disabilities) and apparent disabilities in Canadian postsecondary education. A third group emerged during analyses, students with medical disabilities, which…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Barriers, Paying for College, Disabilities
Canadian Council on Learning, 2010
As the global marketplace becomes increasingly competitive and knowledge-driven the potential social and economic benefits of education have increased. As a result, the past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented expansion in the demand for post-secondary education (PSE) worldwide. The Canadian Council on Learning monograph series,…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Income, Educational Benefits, Debt (Financial)
Amatya, Sachi – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The increasing cost of higher education, coupled with the inability of federal and state governments to sustain parallel increases in levels of funding for student financial aid, has led to significant growth of student loans. This project analyzes the multidimensional student loans space in the US. This project also compares and contrasts some of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid, Higher Education, Student Loan Programs
Stokes, Anthony; Wright, Sarah – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
In a period of student loan scandals and U.S. financial market instability impacting on the cost and availability of student loans, this paper looks at alternative models of higher education funding. In this context, it also considers the level of financial support that the government should provide to higher education.
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Paying for College, College Students
Bayard, Justin; Greenlee, Edith – Statistics Canada, 2009
This report describes the educational experiences, labour market outcomes and financing of higher education of recent graduates for Canadian postsecondary education institutions using data from the 2007 National Graduates Survey (Class of 2005). The first section describes the characteristics of graduates from college, bachelor, master and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, International Studies, Debt (Financial), Labor Market

Finnie, Ross – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2001
Presents results of an empirical investigation of Canadian student loans for four recent cohorts of graduates. Data include proportion of students graduating with loans and average amounts borrowed, loan burden measured by debt-to-earning ratios, repayment rates following graduation, and number of graduates reporting loan difficulties. Results are…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Debt (Financial), Financial Problems, Foreign Countries
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