The Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Aid Project, or the MESA Project, is a research effort being conducted through the Educational Policy Institute and the School for Policy Studies at Queen's University on behalf of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.
The MESA website is currently in the process of being redesigned. Stay tuned for new content in the coming weeks!
Le Projet Mesurer l'efficacité de l'aide financière aux étudiants ou le projet MEAFE est une initiative de recherche menée par l'« Educational Policy Institute » et la « School of Policy Studies » de l'Université Queen's au nom de la Fondation des bourses d'études du millénaire.
Le site Web du projet MEAFE se refait une beauté. Revenez nous visiter pour du nouveau contenu dans les semaines à venir!
MESA news
The Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Aid project, today released a set of four working papers focussing on the issue of student retention. The key findings are that the problem of student retention at a system level is much less severe than previously thought, that higher tuition and student finances have a relatively small effect on retention and that evaluating the effects of student loans is a complex problem.
"These papers provide important new evidence on post-secondary pathways and the financial factors that affect them in Canada," said Dr. Ross Finnie one of the papers' authors and Research Director of the MESA Project. "These findings require the policy community to take a new look at how we view retention issues in higher education and what needs to be done from a policy perspective."
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