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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
A 2012 survey… found that 37 per cent of new teachers were completely unemployed, not able to find even a single day of supply teaching work. And only 14 per cent were able to secure a regular full-time teaching job… while seniority-based policies make unions happy, they are not in the best interests of students. Telling principals they can only hire teachers with the most seniority discriminates against younger teachers… It also undermines efforts to ensure we have the best teachers possible.
Tags: budget, rights, standard of living, youth
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
The length of teachers college will double from one year to two, with an increase in the amount of time teachers-in-training spend on classroom instruction. The government will keep the number of college spaces at 9,000, but, with the extra year, each cohort will contain only 4,500. Sources with knowledge of the government’s plan said Queen’s Park is tailoring the training system to the realities of the job market.
Tags: economy, standard of living
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Saturday, September 8th, 2012
September 07, 2012
McGuinty seeks education on the cheap, credentialism (more students get a degree of decreasing value) and, frankly, the shrinking size and pay of the post-secondary workforce… It’s easy to set up an online university… The problem is, it isn’t a university, it’s another way to destroy the essence of a university… Someone has to call for high standards. For if a shortened BA is going to mean less, Ontario universities will fall into a class system.
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Monday, August 27th, 2012
17 August 2012
The task force report entitled International Education, a Key Driver of Canada’s Economic Prosperity, was lauded on all sides for proposing a series of concrete solutions to looming labour market shortages… “the expenditure resulting from international students in 2010 was $8-billion, which translates to 86,570 jobs and $455-million in government tax revenue.”… the eighth largest jobs generator in Canada… One of the report’s key recommendations is to pursue international scholarships
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
April 22, 3012
The new fees are likely to be passed along to students, who will ultimately bear the burden of the copyright arrangement with higher tuitions… Universities already pay millions of dollars for these licenses with the money flowing to database companies, publishers, and authors… it defines copying as including “posting a link or hyperlink to a digital copy”, yet linking to content can hardly be described as copying materials. Moreover, the licence comes packed with onerous restrictions such as blocking the ability to store articles in online services.
Tags: ideology, rights, standard of living, youth
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Feb. 14, 2012
According to its advocates, all-day kindergarten… offers a crucial leg up for disadvantaged children. For this reason alone, it’s essential to our economic prosperity… In 2002, the U.S. government launched the massive Head Start Impact Study to determine how well the program worked. The final report… found that the modest gains achieved by Head Start students wore off by the end of Grade 1 – they wound up no further ahead than those who weren’t in the program… the benefits of early childhood education have been vastly overstated. It’s not a magic bullet.
Tags: budget, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Jan 15 2012
That’s the fine print many failed to notice about Queen’s Park’s $430 million rebate plan that gives $1,600 back to university students and $730 back to community college students whose annual family income is below $160,000: it does not apply to students who have been out of high school for more than four years… mature students are excluded, as are part-time students, graduate students and Ontario students enrolled outside the province… Because people with children and aboriginals both tend to be older when they enter post-secondary education, both groups appear worse off under the rebate plan.
Tags: budget, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Jan. 3, 2012
Ontario is in the anachronistic position of being the only province that publicly funds one type of religious school (Catholic) to the exclusion of all others. Massive, wasteful duplication and the religious segregation of students are some of the results of this system. Recent events have also shown Catholic doctrine is incompatible with the equality rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms while other religious groups, now seeking access to public schools and public funding, have pointed out the blatant hypocrisy of Ontario’s education policy.
Tags: budget, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, tax
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Jan. 4, 2012
less than 50 per cent of all students in the university sector and one-third of college students will benefit. The CFS presented a petition to the legislature signed by 40,000 students proposing that the $423-million to be spent annually on the rebate program be applied to all tuition fees. This would reduce tuition costs for everyone by nearly 15 per cent… (and) the current application process to determine who is eligible is elaborate and also costly.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Dec 14, 2011
The various groups that have come out against Ontario’s proposed anti-bullying law are doing a fine job of proving the argument that the province has no business funding a separate Catholic school system… a group called Ontario Catholic Parent Advocates, is saying quite plainly that Bill 13 would require Catholic schools to accept homosexuality. And that they shouldn’t have to… The Catholic Church has a right to its beliefs. But the fact that taxpayers continue to fund schools that want to teach those beliefs looks ever more ridiculous as stories like this play out.
Tags: ideology, rights, tax, youth
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