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Career Opportunities There are no current opportunities. Request for Proposals There are no RFPs at this time. 24/25-RFP-001 Consortium on Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) The results of 24/25-RFP-001 Consortium on Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). HEQCO has awarded contracts and funding to the following organizations based on the submissions made under the Consortium on Generative Artificial […]
How many Ontario students applied to the province’s colleges and universities during the last decade? How many enrolled? How many graduated? Find the answers to these and other good questions in Quick Stats, a compendium of data on Ontario’s postsecondary system. Note: All visualizations begin in 2013 and go up to the most recent year […]
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Ontario apprenticeship registrations rising, but completion rates are a concern Since 2000, registrations for new apprenticeships have grown nearly every year, in Ontario and Canada. But a new report from the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) finds that completion rates have not kept pace with registrations. Apprenticeship in Ontario: An Exploratory Analysis shows that while […]
In economically troubled times, university still produces employability and earnings advantage Unlike college, university education often seems to end up under the spotlight during economically troubled times – either as salve or Satan depending on who’s doing the talking. As the debate continues, a new report from the Higher Education Quality Council (HEQCO) examines postsecondary […]
Celia Popovic, Guest blogger The launch this month of a new teaching and learning site on York University’s website has prompted a flurry of emails from colleagues within and beyond the university commenting on the prominence we have given to teaching. As we all know, websites are prime real estate in the virtual world and […]
Pilot program attempts to collect meaningful outcomes data for graduate students As the number of graduate students in Ontario increases, so does the desire for reliable data about the experience of these students and their employment outcomes. A new report from the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) examines a pilot program at Western […]
HEQCO released a report this week providing an extensive review of outcomes-based funding models used in postsecondary education and their effectiveness. Outcomes-based funding is a practice where institutions receive their funding, partially or totally, on the basis of performance, specifically, the achievement of agreed-upon goals or outcomes (I use the terms “outcomes-based funding” and “performance-based […]
The evolution of outcomes-based funding: Institutional mission matters Outcomes-based funding – linking government funding to institutional performance based on identified outcomes – is relatively new to postsecondary systems that have long been accustomed to dollars driven by enrolment. But funding formulas are the most powerful government instruments available to steer system changes and the behaviour […]