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.
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.
MESA news
New research from MESA illuminates impact of immigration and geography on access to university
- Finnie and Mueller: Access to Post-Secondary Education among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
Research suggests that first and second generation children of immigrants are more likely to attend post-secondary education, and not just because their parents tend to be better educated.
Hear Ross Finnie discuss this research on CBC's Ottawa Morning:
Hear Richard Mueller and Ross Finnie discuss their research on CBC's The Link. Listen to the second part of the program. The segment starts at the second minute of the second part of the program.
- Looker: Regional Differences in Rural-Urban Participation Rates in College and University
Urban youth are more likely to attend university than rural youth, who make up much of the difference by attending college. Differences between rural and urban students, and differences between their families, cover that last gap.
- Macleans: Do grants do any good?
- Canada.com: Nearly every young Chinese immigrant in Canada has post-secondary education: study
- Ottawa Citizen: China effect stuns education researchers
Drawing on the Youth in Transition Survey, Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? compiles MESA's research addressing choice, opportunity, and barriers related to post-secondary participation.
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