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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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After-school programs should be non-profit, critics say
Monday, April 11th, 2011
April 8, 2011
“Our government remains committed to ensuring parents have access to affordable, high-quality and on-site before- and after-school care for their children”… Queen’s Park had originally mandated school boards to provide the service by 2012 in schools where at least 15 families request it. But the government backed down last December after a massive lobbying effort from daycares, which feared losing business, and from school boards, which didn’t want the complications of implementing and operating the programs.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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The ultimate public school advantage: Democracy
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Apr 08 2011
Is there anything public schools do that no other form of education can? Only this: Simply by being what they are, they can teach kids about the society they live in. That’s because public schools must let everyone in. What’s unique about public education isn’t the education part, it’s the “public.” Other schools can tell kids about their society but they don’t contain it and show it… public health care… [is] an achievement to take pride in… it’s about survival on a physical level and it’s similar for people everywhere. Education is more specific and social. It’s how we define the way we are, not simply that we are.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Why old-school teaching fails new Canada
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Apr 02 2011
From its 19th-century beginnings, public education here was a venture in equity — another way to say fairness. The public back then was mostly white and Protestant, with British or American roots. But the rich among them had their own private schools. Public schools arose to equalize access to schooling… The question is: What happens when the “public” in public education changes? It now includes these new “racialized” groups and it includes Canada’s first inhabitants… some of them are being ill-served in the public schools.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Why old-school teaching fails new Canada
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Apr 02 2011
Public education was never public enough. It was too narrow and WASPy, too “informed by Anglo-Christian values and deference to the ideals of British monarchy.” Yet it contained the seeds of diversity and equity. Egerton Ryerson, who created Ontario’s schools in the 19th century, might not recognize the results, or like them, but equity is what the system he launched was meant for. It’s good for all kids, not just the neediest, to get a more complex, messier sense of the messy world they’re part of. It’s more fun.
Tags: Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The cost of Ontario’s religious discrimination
Sunday, February 20th, 2011
February 19, 2011
…the Ontario government has taken it upon itself to ensure that one particular religious denomination continues to enjoy rights that are unavailable to the rest of the population. Wasting public money so that children of Catholic families (not “Catholic children”) can be bused on half-empty buses to half-empty schools is indefensible. While Catholics do indeed enjoy a constitutional privilege to publicly funded denominational schools, it has been shown by Newfoundland and Quebec that the constitution can be changed to reflect current societal values – those of fairness and equality.
Tags: budget, ideology, 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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Why build half an engineer? [post-secondary funding]
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Jan. 7, 2011
Postsecondary institutions typically have to stand in line with other areas of general program spending, cup in hand, waiting for the surprises that come (or don’t) on budget day… [Alberta’s] provincial Treasury Board has set up a 20-year capital plan that takes into account all infrastructure needs: highways, health facilities, schools. Money is transferred from general revenues into the capital plan where it is essentially held in a separate account… [resulting in] the certainty of knowing how much money is available for years into the future.
Tags: budget, globalization, participation, standard of living
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Half of Ontario kindergarten kids in full-day by 2012
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
October 6, 2010
Almost half of Ontario kindergarten students will be in a full-day program by the fall of 2012, say ministry documents… just three years into the new program and a jump from 20 per cent in 2011-12… Next year, with another 200 schools added, the cost will be $300 million… given the surge in enrolment and the fact that 2012 is the first time boards can get money for additions and renovations to create extra space.
Tags: child care, standard of living
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Knowledge Infrastructure Program Map [AUCC]
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Connect2Canada – Canada Watch – Knowledge Infrastructure Program Map
June 26, 2009.
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