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Specialize or risk losing funding, Ontario tells universities and colleges
The draft framework for greater “differentiation” between schools was sent to higher-education leaders for feedback… Universities are ultimately free to set their own course, but where the province disagrees with a school’s direction, it can steer behaviour with levers such as funding, allocating extra student spaces and approvals for new programs… The aim is to boost schools’ quality and competitiveness, but the impetus is clearly financial.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology
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Cost of university education to rise 13% over next four years: study
“Average tuition and compulsory fees in Canada have tripled since 1990, even after inflation is taken into account… No wonder there is growing public concern over student debt loads, economic and employment uncertainty, and the long-term ramifications being felt by students and their families.” … Ontario is the province with the highest fees and will see its tuition and other fees climb from $8,403 this fall to an estimated $9,517 in 2016-17.
Tags: budget, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Helping students with mental health issues
During the past 20 years, postsecondary students with learning disabilities in Ontario have gone from likely failure to likely success. The reasons for this are deliberate and clear: There was a concerted effort to develop best practices for supporting learning-disabled students… the best practices involve services and supports anchored by the therapeutic alliance
Tags: disabilities, economy, mental Health, standard of living
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Ontario’s full-day kindergarten a success story
… the number of children with risk factors who have had two years of full-day kindergarten has dropped from 27 per cent to 20 per cent. Even after one year of Ontario’s world-class play-based learning program led by our highly competent early learning educators, risk in the area of language and cognitive development has plummeted a stunning 75 per cent. Equally remarkable, after two years of FDK, risk in the areas of social competence and communication skills has been reduced by half.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, standard of living
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Universities should educate – employers should train
Our economic health depends on the critical thinkers our universities are graduating. The next generation of leaders in our knowledge-based economy will emerge from these institutions and can only truly be great if employers understand and value a university degree as a broad education, not specific skills training.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Atkinson Message to New Premier: Recommit to Vision for Full Day Learning
It was smart public policy using the assets Ontarians already own in their publicly funded schools; ending the double billing needed to run two parallel services – school and daycare — for the same children. The innovation lasted for about 12 months. The daycare lobby went ballistic accusing government of stealing its clients. The then Premier yielded, reversing his own legislation to allow school boards to contract out care to daycare operators.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Vision for full-day kindergarten in Ontario falling short, says expert
… when school boards balked at running before- and after-school programs, the government amended the legislation to allow them to contract out the service. The vast majority of boards… decided to continue using third-party operators… Meanwhile, in Waterloo and Ottawa, where school boards took on the responsibility of delivering daycare, waiting lists have been reduced to zero and educators say kids are thriving.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Middle-class incomes are stuck: Why it matters and how to fix it
… a society where big slices of the population don’t benefit from economic growth invites trouble… [un]fairness, and… the concentration of economic power… stagnating middle incomes can be a problem in a democracy… [But] Demand for cognitive, non-routine, personal service, and creative labour remains high… long-run structural measures — like education — that can build a sustainable framework for broadly-based income growth for the future.
Tags: economy, globalization, standard of living, youth
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Clear priority: Vision tests for school-age children
When vision impairment goes unchecked it becomes a kind of invisible disability, affecting literacy, numeracy and skill development. It can also contribute to social exclusion… academic struggles are wrongly attributed to another cause, such as bad behaviour or cognitive ability… one in six children has a vision problem that makes it difficult to learn and read. At present, in many regions across the country, a child’s vision impairment may never be detected
Tags: disabilities, Health, standard of living, youth
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Ontario’s university funding falls further behind
By 2011-12, Ontario universities received 35 per cent less operating funding from the provincial government than the average in the rest of Canada… In 2000-01, the gap was “only” 20 per cent. It has now increased to 38 per cent… Much of the funding shortfall has been made up with skyrocketing tuition fees… the contribution from student tuition and fees – high as they are – still leaves a significant gap… in 2011-12 it was 16 per cent.
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