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‘We have a system that has lost its integrity’: Canada moves to reform its international student program
Monday, October 30th, 2023
“The worst of the private colleges are the storefront, fly-by-night operation, and they’re really dashing people’s hopes in this country. And those need to be shut down,” said Miller, adding that education is outside of the federal jurisdiction and it takes provincial leadership to address these problems… A new program has been developed to let immigration and border officials to quickly authenticate international students’ offer letters and payment status in real time.
Tags: crime prevention, immigration, multiculturalism, participation
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Indian students outpace Ontario government in funding colleges: report
Sunday, September 17th, 2023
“Indian students not only contribute twice the amount of money to the college system, on aggregate, that Canadian students do, they also contribute slightly more than does the Government of Ontario.”… as Ontario has frozen and reduced tuition for domestic students, colleges have made up for it by accepting more international students… this has led to municipalities struggling to provide housing, transit and social services for the increasing population.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, standard of living
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Investing in university infrastructure is an investment in the future
Thursday, August 31st, 2023
… with flat tuition revenue in Ontario, universities have dwindling funds to launch large capital projects, even in partnership with private corporations or donors, as these partnerships often require the institution to come to the table with matching funds… An investment in the infrastructure of our universities is an investment in our communities and the future prosperity and well-being of all Canadians. We cannot afford to defer this any longer.
Tags: budget, housing, immigration, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Time for Ford to act on Ontario’s reliance on international students for post-secondary funding
Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
The government’s failure to properly fund post-secondary is the root cause of the burgeoning international student population and the strain it puts on housing… What it needs to do is reduce the system’s reliance on those students’ fees by reducing their numbers and making up the difference itself. That would help both the housing market and the stability of post-secondary education.
Tags: budget, featured, housing, immigration, jurisdiction, multiculturalism
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Children’s early learning belongs in neighbourhood schools
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023
Early learning is early education. It belongs under the purview of Ministries of Education. The federal government invested in children’s early learning and child-care because it finally accepted the wisdom of doing so — for children’s learning and development, for families’ well-being, for the economy and for communities optimal social outcomes.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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“Getting it done” Ontario’s agenda for college education
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
The rhetoric of cost-efficiency embraces regulation, hierarchy and monopoly to transform college educational policy. The resulting marketing of education is destabilizing the college system by lowering educational standards and replacing education with labour-ready training… the pedagogical plan is no less disconcerting and will result in changes in student recruitment and training that essentially bypass key components of a college education.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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It’s time to abolish the Catholic school system in Ontario
Thursday, June 1st, 2023
The demographic and political imperatives that required a separate system no longer exist. The system continues to exist because of a powerful lobby, entrenched interests, and inertia… it would take only Ontario and the federal government to do so. The legal path to ending public denominational funding is much easier than you think. There would be court challenges and protests, but the separate-system backers would lose.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, multiculturalism
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Ford government’s education playbook: manifest a crisis, ignore research, abandon educators
Sunday, May 28th, 2023
With significant efforts on behalf of the government to manifest a crisis, ignore research, and leave educators to fend for themselves, there seems to be an insidious plan to dismantle publicly funded education… Ontario deserves a government that believes in public education and values its educators, students, families, and communities.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, youth
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Ontario is first province to make mental health lessons mandatory in Grade 10
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
Now, the government will be providing consistent, required learning materials on mental health in Grades 7 and 8, including videos and activities about how to handle and recognize stress. In Grade 10, students — as part of the mandatory career studies — will be taught the signs of anxiety and being overwhelmed, and where to go for help.
Tags: budget, mental Health, participation, youth
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Once a school troublemaker, Charles Pascal died a visionary for transforming education in Ontario
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
… the first full-time executive director of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation… was key in establishing the Ontario Child Tax benefit, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and early learning policy… The genesis of full-day kindergarten began with a pilot project led by the foundation… providing a model that has been adopted in other provinces.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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