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The tuition burden for Ontario families is rising – and regressive
September 7, 2011
Families have seen university tuition increase 244 per cent, in real dollars, since 1990, even though incomes have been stagnant… For professional students, it’s even worse. To support a dentistry student, for example, a lower-income family would have to devote six-and-a-half years of earnings to pay for just the tuition fees… This year, the average undergraduate student in Ontario will pay an estimated $6,500 for a year’s tuition, up from $2,500 (in 2011 dollars) in 1990… Ontario now has the highest tuition fees in Canada.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Education and productivity
Sep 02 2011
Each child motivated by the Canada Learning Bond to pursue university will earn, on average, over $800,000 more during a working life than someone who ends their education with a high-school diploma. A third of this will go right back into government coffers in the form of higher income taxes. Solid returns on a $2,000 investment. And this doesn’t count the avoided costs of social supports for those left behind or the greater productivity and innovation from the Canadian businesses that will employ them.
Tags: economy, featured, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Justice Goes Global
June 14, 2011
Sandel’s popularity in Asia reflects the intersection of three trends. One is the growth of online education, where students anywhere now can gain access to the best professors from everywhere. Another is the craving in Asia for a more creative, discussion-based style of teaching in order to produce more creative, innovative students. And the last is the hunger of young people to engage in moral reasoning and debates, rather than having their education confined to the dry technical aspects of economics, business or engineering.
Tags: globalization, ideology, standard of living
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EQ over IQ: How play-based learning can lead to more successful kids
Jun. 14, 2011
Self-regulation is a hot topic in education, something that’s hard to quantify but it can be better than even IQ at predicting academic success. It’s also a side effect of play-based learning, the centrepiece of new full-day kindergarten programs… But beyond childcare are volumes of research that… suggest that through these full-day programs Canada is building a generation of self-motivated learners who will be more successful, healthier and happier than any before them.
Tags: child care, participation, standard of living
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The Tories’ buried budget line: Funding for brain research
Mar. 24, 2011
If our future prosperity lies in knowledge, we need to nurture our most precious natural resource – our brains. One way to do that is larger and smarter investments in education. But another key component is preventing and treating brain diseases, which are a $60-billion a year drain on the economy annually. An estimated 5.5 million Canadians live with a neurological condition. There is a broad spectrum of conditions… One in five people will also suffer from a mental health problem like depression some time in their life.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Better integration plan needed for special-needs students: coalition
March 10, 2011
… integration in its current framework isn’t working and is hindering the learning of other children. “We want the creation of special classes when we need them,” said St. Germain, acknowledging that means more than exist at present… The coalition’s position worries a group that represents the disabled, which fears it would result in less integration and more special classes… However, the alliance agrees with the coalition about the lack of resources, Colin said. “As long as we don’t have resources for the child, we risk derailing integration.”
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, participation, rights
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Class act [performance levels]
Dec. 11, 2010
As a country, Canada has the narrowest gap in achievement between children from well-to-do and low-income homes (Canada Is Not Becoming Outclassed – Dec. 10). The world over, educating children living in poverty is the biggest problem educators face… Of the several reasons for Canada’s success, the most important for me is that Canada attracts applicants to our faculties of education from the top third of university graduates, as does Finland, while the U.S. and U.K. draw their teachers from the bottom third of university graduates.
Tags: participation, standard of living, youth
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How Canada is becoming outclassed in school
Dec. 08, 2010
Measured against 65 other countries, Canada places fifth overall in reading, seventh in science and eighth in mathematics in the Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development’s education assessment released Tuesday… Girls outperformed boys in reading tests in every country and in every Canadian province… Because they represent close to half the population, boys provide an excellent target for efforts aimed at improving Canada’s PISA scores.
Tags: budget, globalization, standard of living
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Norwegians don’t pay tuition, and more of them finish university
September 27, 2010
Despite its wealth, Norway kept income and sales taxes high, using those tax dollars to fund an extensive social safety net – it’s ranked the world’s best country to live in by the United Nations’ Human Development Index… The quality of a Norwegian university education is high, yet tuition is usually free. Norwegian students pay an administrative fee of less than $100 per semester that helps finance services such as kindergartens for their children, health care and advisory help. The government pays students’ living expenses through a combined loan and scholarship…
Tags: ideology, participation, tax
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How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada
conferenceboard.ca – website/home – This Website – How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada – assesses Canada’s quality of life compared with that of its peer countries.
We publish an overall report card as well as individual ones that measure performances in six categories: Economy, Innovation, Environment, Education and Skills, Health and Society. We release the report card for each category individually throughout the year.
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