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Canadian universities switch to tech savvy course alternatives
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Jul 23 2011
Starting in September, thousands of Canadian students and faculty members will shift from Access Copyright to open and alternative access, relying on more flexible arrangements that will increase reliance on electronic course content and freely available materials that can be used without restriction. The change will suffer from some growing pains, but represents a major step toward better leveraging technology within the education system.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Charity Model Is Bad Economics
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
April 2011
Instead of the proper public funding of post-secondary education, we are left with the “charity model” where public institutions like universities beg the private sector for the gift of uncollected taxes — gifts that typically come with strings attached… As for the need for corporate tax cuts… corporate cash balances have risen 18 per cent since the end of 2007 — an increase the investment firm calls “staggering.”… Meanwhile, the government proposes to cut government spending, shifting onto the ordinary taxpayer the burden of both taxes and reduction in services.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology
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Pathways to Education expanding with $28.5-million from Ontario
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Jun. 27, 2011
An inner-city education program that is achieving marked success in lowering the dropout rate for disadvantaged high-school students is expanding to new communities with the help of a fresh infusion of government funding. Pathways to Education Canada will receive $28.5-million over three years from the Ontario government to help more students in low-income communities graduate from high school and go on to college, university or a trade.
Tags: participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Canada Learning Bond helps low-income families
Monday, June 27th, 2011
June 26, 2011
Three years after arriving in Canada from the Philippines, the new mother had no job, no income and no home of her own, but she knew something that more than 1 million Canadians like her do not: Ottawa will give low-income parents a nest egg for their child’s higher education. Because she acted on this tip from her community centre, her son Luke, who is one, will have a $500 savings bond for future tuition, to which Ottawa will add $100 a year up to a maximum of $2,000. They need not kick in any money.
Tags: poverty, tax, youth
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Stop shafting undergrads, get profs back into the class
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Jun. 18, 2011
In provincial politics, universities are of little interest to vote-seeking politicians. They are interested, it would seem, only in increasing access. They promise and brag about how many more spaces they have created, without worrying about what the people who occupy those spaces learn or receive as part of their education experience. The largest number of those spaces is occupied by undergraduates who have been getting the shaft or, to put matters less crudely, have not been receiving fair value for their increasing fees.
Tags: budget, standard of living, youth
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Native grads would soar if learning gap closed, activist says
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
June 13, 2011
Canada could be producing 4,200 more home-grown university grads a year and reap an estimated $401 billion more in economic productivity over 25 years if it wiped out the “tragic” learning gap between natives and the rest of Canada, says a First Nations lawyer and activist… Most reserves have waiting lists of students hoping for federal funding for tuition, which has been capped at 2 per cent each year for more than a decade, while the population — and demand for higher learning — has grown.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Student money: Ending the cycle of poverty
Friday, June 10th, 2011
Jun 9, 2011
As a single mother who entered university to try to break the cycle of poverty, I now find myself in a $48,800/year job (for which having a degree was mandatory) and carrying monthly Canada Student loan costs of $544/month and BC Student Loan costs of $200/month… My son will be entering university in 6 years, at which time, I expect to still be carrying my own debt, and will be unable to provide full support for his educational costs, and so the cycle of poverty continues as he will be forced to amass debt as well.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax, women, youth
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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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Province to decide on satellite campuses for colleges, universities
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
May 31 2011
The Ontario government no longer will let colleges and universities decide where to set up satellite campuses — as many small and remote schools have done to gain a foothold in the populous GTA. From now on, Queen’s Park alone will determine if, and where, there will be new spinoff sites. The change is a bid to avoid uneven clusters of higher learning in parts of Ontario that leave other corners starved for post-secondary programs…
Tags: budget, ideology, rights
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Enrolment to soar, in spite of demographic shift
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
May 10, 2011
The Ontario government has set a goal of seeing 70 per cent of its population earning a postsecondary credential, be it a trade certificate, a college diploma, or a university degree. The current rate is 64 per cent… if that goal is achieved, the number of full-time students at Ontario universities will rise to 485,000 by 2020, despite an expected decline in the 18-24 population. Full-time enrolment in 2010 was 398,000.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, youth
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