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Acknowledgements

Statistics Canada's Centre for Education Statistics would like to thank the staff of the Canada Student Loans Program at Human Resources and Social Development Canada who provided invaluable assistance during initial work on this project. Comments from federal and provincial government departments, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the Association of Community Colleges of Canada, the National Association of Career Colleges, the Canadian Association of Private Language Schools, and the Canadian Institutional Research and Planning Association, were all extremely helpful.

The author would also like to thank Michael Skolnik, Professor Emeritus, Department of Theory & Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Alex McCormick, a former Senior Scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and now Director of the National Survey of Student Engagement and Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Education, for their careful reviews.

The author's colleagues at Statistics Canada, particularly François Nault and Eleanor Bouliane, contributed valuable feedback on the final version of this paper.

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Catalogue no. 81-595-M no.071

Frequency: Occasional

ISBN: 978-1-100-11572-6

ISSN: 1711-831X

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