Education Matters

June 2004

The second issue of Statistics Canada's new online publication, Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, contains two articles, one examining French immersion programs in schools and the other graduates from the class of 2000.

"French immersion 30 years later" looks at the reading achievement of 15-year-old students enrolled in immersion programs compared with those who were not. "Class of 2000: How are they faring two years later?" examines the employment, earnings and debt status in 2002 of college and university students who graduated in 2000.

In addition, this issue of Education Matters is the first to provide updates to education indicators contained in Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Indicators Program.

Education Matters is a free online publication released every two months. It a source of summary information on issues relating to education, training and learning, as well as a key point of access to data and analytical output relating to education. It is an invaluable research tool for policy analysts, researchers, academics and journalists and a key source of information for teachers, parents and many others.

It also links electronically to a wide variety of data, news on education, learning resources and tables, charts and analysis.

The second issue of Education Matters: Insights on Education, learning and training in Canada (81-004-XIE free) is now available on our website. From the Our products and services page, under Browse our Internet publications, choose Free, then Education..

For more information, contact Client Services (1 800 307-3382 or 613-951-7608; fax: 613-951-9040; TTY: 1 800 363-7629; educationstats@statcan.gc.ca), Centre for Education Statistics.