Archive for the ‘Education Debates’ Category
« Older Entries | Newer Entries »
Allowing students to opt-out of programs will have a ripple effect
Monday, January 28th, 2019
… tuition is being cut but many of them won’t see any real benefit because their grants will be turned into loans so they will graduate with more debt. They will be paying more for less because Universities will have to cut millions of dollars from programming. And once the university transit pass agreements are broken, they will be paying more for transit.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Students demand Ford government reverse course on OSAP changes
Sunday, January 27th, 2019
Nour Alideeb, the Ontario chair of the Canadian Federation of Students, said students from the lowest income families will bear the brunt of the cuts to grants. “Our message to the government is you messed with the wrong people,” she said. “We’re going to be here to make sure that you’re actually listening to the people, which are the students, and students want to see a reverse on the OSAP cuts but also public investments into our institutions.”
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
To Doug Ford, being “for the students” means reckless OSAP cuts
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Doug Ford does not represent—nor does he care for—the students of Ontario. If he did, he would respect the need for adequate student spaces and student-led services, respect the autonomous structure of the student unions, and ensure Post-Secondary institutions have the funding needed to provide both the current and future students with high quality education and adequate resources on campus.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Tuition changes will hurt students, society, in the long run
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Nobody I know in higher education resents the notion that students should pay less. The way to make this happen is to spread the cost of higher education investments over our broader tax base… at first blush the announcement seems positive: Tuition rates are going down! But a clear-eyed reading of the situation reveals these cuts do far more harm to students. The real goal is the government will spend far less on student grants — siphoning resources from an already underfunded system.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Ontario’s buck-a-beer playbook is coming to a campus near you — with tuition discounts too good to be true
Sunday, January 20th, 2019
… you don’t need a university degree to know that discounted tuition comes at a cost… This isn’t the first government to promise reduced post-secondary costs. The difference is the Tories won’t be making up the difference — because the money will come straight off the bottom line of Ontario’s cash-strapped colleges and universities.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Changes to Ontario tuition are unfair and short-sighted
Friday, January 18th, 2019
Despite the superficial appeal of the tuition cut, the reality is that the families who will benefit the most from it are higher-income ones that currently do not qualify for any tuition fee grants… A 10-per-cent decrease in tuition fees is a drop in the bucket of the costs… less than 2 per cent of the estimated financial costs of attending college and university associated with attending college or university…
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Sex-ed critics fear that it may ‘give kids ideas.’ But that would be a good thing.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
The fundamental complaint of those who oppose modernizing sex-ed seems to be that it will “give kids ideas” – in other words, that teaching about sexuality will lead to sexual experimentation… Parents absolutely have a right to inculcate values on their offspring. But that does not extend to imposing ignorance on others. That is especially true because we know that unawareness and naïveté do not prevent young people from having sex – it simply makes them more likely to make poor choices.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Ontario government’s lawyer says teachers can use own judgment in sex-ed lessons
Saturday, January 12th, 2019
ETFO president Sam Hammond said he was surprised to hear the government’s position on using the 2015 curriculum as a resource… He said that if the government had told teachers that they were free to use their professional judgment and the 2015 curriculum as a resource in implementing the current curriculum, “we wouldn’t be here today, quite frankly.” Instead, Mr. Hammond said the government chose to publicly threaten teachers.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Teacher supply goes from glut to scarcity in a few short years
Friday, January 11th, 2019
First-year teacher unemployment in Ontario dropped from 38 percent in 2013 to 14 percent by 2017 and is “well into the single digits” this year… Among the contributing factors, say observers, is the slowly rising number of teacher retirements coupled with increasing school enrolments in parts of the country, cuts to teacher education programs, patchy applicant interest after years of hearing there were no jobs, and region-specific circumstances that have impacted supply and demand.
Tags: jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
As parents of complex special-needs kids, we know inclusive education doesn’t work
Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
… inclusion – a system which seeks to include special-needs students in regular classrooms – does not work for complex special-needs students (those, for example, with low functioning autism, Down syndrome, a physical disability and/or who are medically fragile.) However, it can work for mid and moderate special-needs students. (Those with dyslexia for example, or high-functioning Down syndrome or autism.)… The truth is that both camps have their place in education.
Tags: child care, disabilities, featured, ideology, participation, rights, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Recent Comments