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Ontario spends less per student on faculty than the rest of Canada
Per student, Ontario universities’ operating expenditures on faculty salaries have been the lowest of all provinces for more than ten years… If one were to take the teaching models in each province as given and assume other expenditures were the same per student in other provinces as in Ontario, the proportion of Ontario expenditures directed to faculty is 22 per cent, compared to 27 per cent for the rest of Canada.
Tags: budget, standard of living
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Stop ‘streaming’ students in Grade 9
The OECD… recommends a “common curriculum” until the senior years of high school so that kids won’t see their post-secondary options limited… Keeping them in the academic stream for their first year, at least, can lead to higher pass rates, give more teens a chance to go onto university if they choose to, and stop the practice of seeing vulnerable poor and racialized groups over-represented in the applied courses.
Tags: featured, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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The skills paradox
… we should put more effort into delivering and evaluating post-immigration programs to support the language skills and cultural capital that underpin successful integration of newcomers into the labour market. And we should offer more opportunities for training and continuing education for older workers in order to boost the skills of those whose time in the conventional classroom lie years behind them.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, participation, standard of living
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Two new reports highlight Ontario’s rising tuition fees
According to Statistics Canada, average undergraduate tuition fees in Ontario are now $7,868, the highest in Canada. The Canadian average without Ontario is $5,178. In addition, fees in Ontario went up 4.0 per cent between 2014-15 and 2015-16, compared to a 3.2 per cent increase nationally… As OCUFA reported this past February, tuition fees surpassed public funding as a source of university revenue in Ontario for the first time this year.
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, youth
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Ontario tuition high, but still affordable
… tuition in Ontario might appear higher than other jurisdictions, [but] it’s critical to consider the supports students receive to offset the cost of tuition through one of the most progressive and robust student assistance programs in Canada. Our government issued around $1.3 billion in grants and loans last year, and 70 per cent of that assistance was money that students won’t have to repay… Ontario undergraduate students graduate with the third lowest public and private debt.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Reconciliation begins by closing the graduation gap
Put simply, postsecondary education (PSE) matters for addressing income inequality and fulfilling economic potential for aboriginal Canadians, making all of Canada better off. But despite growing numbers of First Nations, Inuit and Metis university graduates, the gap with the rest of the population continues to grow… Curricula, programs and the full range of university services must better promote and respect indigenous knowledge, experiences and world views so all students may learn and benefit from exchange and understanding.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Professors push back against laptops in the lecture hall
Students who use laptops during class also engage in “high-tech ‘doodling’ ” – sending e-mails, exchanging instant messages, surfing the Web… even when students use computers only for note-taking, they retain less information than students who take notes by hand… doodling online distracts not just the person on Facebook, but everyone around them. Laptops in class are like second-hand smoke
Tags: ideology, participation
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Helping students, without burdening everyone else
Student loans are usually tied to financial need, in order to make post-secondary education available to the greatest number of people. But this isn’t a good argument for removing the obligation for students to pay the money back. At least with a loan, the liability is funded, even if that money takes time to come back to government coffers… if non-repayable grants become an expectation of government, there will be pressure for all provinces to provide them, including ones that cannot afford to do so.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, tax, youth
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Why we should be wary of Ontario’s high-school graduation rate
Part of the reason the graduation rate is increasing is that standards for graduation have been lowered. … rather than simply blindly pursuing higher graduation rates, we should also be pausing and reflecting on what exactly we want a high-school diploma to mean. After all, while we want as many students to succeed as possible, if we make the bar too low, we run the risk that achieving a high-school diploma will lose all meaning.
Tags: ideology, standard of living, youth
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Don’t undermine Ontario’s education advantage
Ontario’s system has become a model of equity and inclusiveness in education and, as a result, in student achievement. Much of this is due to a shift to so-called outcomes-based learning and assessment. In this model, the child is taught as an individual with unique skills and needs and evaluated on the basis of what he or she can demonstrate and the teacher can observe… When classes are too large and teachers denied adequate prep time, the approach is unsustainable.
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