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University in Ontario is cheaper than you think
Over the last 20 years, university has become more affordable for all students. Meanwhile, tuition for low-income students has dropped to especially low, even negative, levels. The confusion over whether school is becoming less or more affordable stems from a misunderstanding of how to measure the cost. In particular, some fail to consider that the real cost of university is tuition minus grants — net tuition.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax, youth
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Dark Days for Our Universities
What is different now is that Canadian post-secondary must depend more and more on less and less government support… post-secondary schools must do as they’re paid to do. If public money dwindles, it must be found in higher student fees, in corporate funding, in recruiting foreign kids desperate for a Canadian degree… when your teachers or professors protest, as they have every right to, that annoys and embarrasses the government. It will punish you for not imposing the “silence of the deans” on them.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Per-student university funding on track to hit lowest level in 50 years
Ontario currently has the lowest level of per-student funding and the highest tuition fees in Canada. Increased public investment would allow universities to preserve the quality of education while ensuring they remain affordable for students and their families… Funding per “eligible” student – those for whom universities receive provincial operating support – will fall 7.5 per cent over the next three years… Whoever forms the next government, it is vital that they reverse this downward trend in funding.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, youth
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There is a crisis in universities: It’s in teaching undergrads
if there is a crisis in higher education in Canada it is in the quality of undergraduate teaching. Many universities – in response to cutbacks in funding, debt crises, and mounting costs – have grown their undergraduate enrollment rapidly and focused their resources on graduate programs and research. The funding model currently in place puts pressure on universities to grow class sizes
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Professors need to teach more
… how are the professors spending their time? Research. The system is skewed toward research, because research is rewarded by government grants, promotions and prestige… these days, everyone is supposed to be a teacher-scholar, even though there is little evidence that research improves teaching, or that all this scholarly endeavour is worthwhile… using faculty resources more effectively “may be one of the most promising opportunities for universities to increase their productivity.”
Tags: participation, standard of living, youth
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University education, like love, cannot simply be moved online
Teaching and learning involves human beings, interaction, opinions, facial expressions, emotion, and yes even a touch of the hand or a warm, sweaty handshake. The dialectal method involves asking questions and getting answers, and this means living people sitting in a room together and spontaneously interacting… experiencing all the excitement and disappointment, the frustration and fury, of involved discussion.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living
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University funding in Ontario falls behind
New data shows that the Ontario government operating funding to universities in 2012-13 did not keep up with enrolment increases. For the first time in a while, the level of funding also failed to keep up with inflation… Inflation-adjusted per student funding has been in decline since 2006-07, but the pace of decline has been picking up. In the latest year alone, it dropped by 2.9 per cent; since its peak in 2006-07, it has dropped 11.0 per cent.
Tags: budget, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Chapter and verse, Catholic school funding’s unfair
… the principal reason Ontario should do away with Catholic school funding is not financial… As the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has noted, the origin of Catholic school funding in Ontario lies in a mid-19th century desire to protect religious freedom and equality, as both concepts were then conceived. But the continued application of that constitutional compromise “only serves to erode those very principles today.”
Tags: budget, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Schools must break the cycle of poverty
First, we should stop segregation… we segregate students in two ways. The first is effectively based on income, as we force students to attend the school near to where they live… second method of segregation is based on academics… there is an academic hierarchy with “collegiate” schools at the top, “business” and “technical” schools at the bottom.
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canada needs a revolution in math education
When children decide they aren’t talented in math, their brains work less efficiently: they stop paying attention, taking risks and persevering in the face of difficulty, and they often develop anxieties or behavioural problems. By making everyone feel capable, Mary Jane was able to produce a class of students who were, to a surprising degree, equally capable.
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