Trends in higher education – Volume 3: Finance

This third and final volume of the 2007-08 edition of Trends focuses on the resources that Canadian universities have to support their teaching and research activities. The volume begins by comparing the combined funding for teaching and research in Canadian universities with higher education funding in some of our most important comparator countries: the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. The second section examines the structure of Canadian university funding and funding trends in Canada over the last three decades. The third section illustrates the factors that will drive change in the decade ahead and which are likely to influence future funding requirements.

• Download the 2007-08 Volume 3 report – (pdf) (2 MB)
• Media release (June 25, 2008)
• Backgrounder (June 25, 2008)

Archives:

2007-08 - Volume 2 on faculty

• Download the 2007-08 Volume 2 report on faculty – (pdf) (3 MB)

2007-08 - Volume 1 on enrolment

• Download the 2007-08 Volume 1 report on enrolment – (pdf) (2.51 MB)

Related resources for Volume 1 report:

• Letter published in the Ottawa Citizen (December 10, 2007)
• Read the news release
• Growing our universities: in enrolment and capacity. (Op-ed published on the Globe and Mail website).
• Busting the myth of an enrolment bust - story in University Affairs magazine (May 2007)

2002 - Trends in higher education

• Download the 2002 report - (pdf) (4.92 MB)