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Ontario universities promise funding guide amid Carleton donor backlash
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Jul. 14 2012
Ontario’s universities are trying to assemble a toolkit to help their leaders navigate the delicate, sometimes controversial funding deals they broker with wealthy private donors… The absence of clear rules is apparent in a 2010 donor agreement whereby oil magnate Clayton Riddell pledged $15-million to Carleton to start a new political management program… with power to “approve the budget, the selection of adjunct faculty and staff, including the Executive Director and to participate in the faculty hiring decisions.”The Canadian Association of University Teachers was quick to condemn the terms.
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, rights
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Ontario shakes up postsecondary funding
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Jun. 02, 2011
Ontario is overhauling the way it finances universities and colleges, replacing some per-student funding with performance-based support intended to discourage an attitude of “growth at all costs” that has been acknowledged to have harmed quality. Although still pushing expansion, the province is pressing some schools to focus more on teaching than on aspiring to grow into elite comprehensive institutions.
Tags: budget, standard of living, youth
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When a university degree just isn’t enough
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
May. 09, 2011
While undergraduate enrolments shot up 40 per cent, faculty levels rose only 25 per cent… Annual statistics from the Canadian Association of University Teachers show there were 23.1 students per professor in 2007-2008, compared with fewer than 17 in 1990-91. Universities have allowed these ratios to swell in step with growing costs of salaries, infrastructure and research in order to balance budgets – up to a point, teaching more students with the same faculty members boosts general revenues.
Tags: budget, participation, standard of living, youth
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Ontario to make it easier for students to switch schools
Monday, January 17th, 2011
Jan. 16, 2011
… he Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario says the percentages of college students who proceed to a degree program, and of university graduates who enroll at colleges, have risen noticeably over the past decade… But until fairly recently, credit transfer was considered a minor issue in Ontario, partly because colleges and universities saw themselves as having distinct roles. Schools were, and still are, fiercely protective of their autonomy and standards, not to mention competitive… a spirit of collaboration – driven by students –appears to be taking hold across the sector.
Tags: participation, standard of living, youth
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