Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230577 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Queen’s Economics Department Working Paper No. 1424
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper offers some observations on the funding of post-secondary schools in Ontario and Canada more broadly. Specifically, it notes how limited public funding for domestic students has provided strong incentives for PSE schools to attract full fee-paying international students, whose numbers have risen dramatically in recent years in Canada. The result has been a rising financial exposure of such schools to sudden external funding shocks and an increasing risk to the overall quality and available curriculum of programs delivered to all students. The paper also comments on Ontario plans for differentiation of schools, and raises concerns about Ontario's planned heavy reliance on performance-based funding rules. We explore unintended consequences of crude application of simplistic performance metrics using a number of examples from recent British and Australian experience.
Subjects: 
post-secondary education
international students
Ontario university funding incentives
JEL: 
H52
I22
I23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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