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Legal Education Reform
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
November 25, 2011
Instead of a curriculum taught largely through professors’ grilling of students about appellate cases, some schools are offering more apprentice-style learning in legal clinics and more courses that train students for their multiple future roles as advocates and counselors, negotiators and deal-shapers, and problem-solvers… Some are exploring ways to reduce tuitions and make themselves more sustainable. Potential business models include legal degrees based on two years of classes, followed by third-year apprenticeship programs.
Tags: participation, rights, standard of living
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Ottawa needs to step up to PSE plate, too
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
November 23, 2011
Since the late 1990s, full-time enrolment at colleges and universities has increased 25 per cent. Enrolment in graduate studies soared 42 per cent between 1998 and 2008. But federal funding for postsecondary education has decreased dramatically since the late-1970s. The Canada Social Transfer gives money to the provinces but does not require them to use federal postsecondary funding for postsecondary purposes… The CFS’s central recommendation is for the federal government to bring in a Post-Secondary Education Act modeled after the Canada Health Act.
Tags: budget, participation, youth
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Setting education priorities
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Nov 04 2011
The most intractable educational challenge is not really an educational issue at all: it is the enduring problem in Ontario (and Canada) of poverty. Schools and teachers cannot resolve this deep social problem (they have no control over unemployment, low wages and inadequate housing)… The impact of a caring, perceptive mentor on the life of a struggling student (whether poor or middle class) can be immense and the government should support this practice across the province… [and] encourage every creative attempt to deepen student “engagement” in elementary and secondary classrooms.
Tags: ideology, poverty, standard of living
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University tuition fees rise again: StatsCan
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Sep 16, 2011
Statistics Canada said the average annual tuition fee for undergraduate students is $5,366 for the new 2011-12 school year, up 4.3% from last year. That follows a 4% in tuition for the 2010-11 school year… Not only did Ontario see the biggest year-to-year rise in tuition fees, it also had the most expensive overall cost at $6,640 for undergraduates. Perhaps not surprisingly, post-secondary tuition has emerged as an issue in the current election campaign in Ontario… Ontario has the most expensive graduate programs with an average tuition of $7,578 and Newfoundland has the lowest at $2,456.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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The tuition burden for Ontario families is rising – and regressive
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
September 7, 2011
Families have seen university tuition increase 244 per cent, in real dollars, since 1990, even though incomes have been stagnant… For professional students, it’s even worse. To support a dentistry student, for example, a lower-income family would have to devote six-and-a-half years of earnings to pay for just the tuition fees… This year, the average undergraduate student in Ontario will pay an estimated $6,500 for a year’s tuition, up from $2,500 (in 2011 dollars) in 1990… Ontario now has the highest tuition fees in Canada.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Education and productivity
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Sep 02 2011
Each child motivated by the Canada Learning Bond to pursue university will earn, on average, over $800,000 more during a working life than someone who ends their education with a high-school diploma. A third of this will go right back into government coffers in the form of higher income taxes. Solid returns on a $2,000 investment. And this doesn’t count the avoided costs of social supports for those left behind or the greater productivity and innovation from the Canadian businesses that will employ them.
Tags: economy, featured, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Justice Goes Global
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
June 14, 2011
Sandel’s popularity in Asia reflects the intersection of three trends. One is the growth of online education, where students anywhere now can gain access to the best professors from everywhere. Another is the craving in Asia for a more creative, discussion-based style of teaching in order to produce more creative, innovative students. And the last is the hunger of young people to engage in moral reasoning and debates, rather than having their education confined to the dry technical aspects of economics, business or engineering.
Tags: globalization, ideology, standard of living
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EQ over IQ: How play-based learning can lead to more successful kids
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Jun. 14, 2011
Self-regulation is a hot topic in education, something that’s hard to quantify but it can be better than even IQ at predicting academic success. It’s also a side effect of play-based learning, the centrepiece of new full-day kindergarten programs… But beyond childcare are volumes of research that… suggest that through these full-day programs Canada is building a generation of self-motivated learners who will be more successful, healthier and happier than any before them.
Tags: child care, participation, standard of living
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The Tories’ buried budget line: Funding for brain research
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Mar. 24, 2011
If our future prosperity lies in knowledge, we need to nurture our most precious natural resource – our brains. One way to do that is larger and smarter investments in education. But another key component is preventing and treating brain diseases, which are a $60-billion a year drain on the economy annually. An estimated 5.5 million Canadians live with a neurological condition. There is a broad spectrum of conditions… One in five people will also suffer from a mental health problem like depression some time in their life.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Better integration plan needed for special-needs students: coalition
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
March 10, 2011
… integration in its current framework isn’t working and is hindering the learning of other children. “We want the creation of special classes when we need them,” said St. Germain, acknowledging that means more than exist at present… The coalition’s position worries a group that represents the disabled, which fears it would result in less integration and more special classes… However, the alliance agrees with the coalition about the lack of resources, Colin said. “As long as we don’t have resources for the child, we risk derailing integration.”
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, participation, rights
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