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In defence of transformation Change we can (try to) believe in.
Friday, January 11th, 2013
January 9, 2013
Technology can extend the reach of instruction without a proportional increase in time and cost, but more importantly, it can free the precious resource of the individual instructor’s personal attention from being consumed in presentation of basic facts and elementary principles… expanding the use of hybrid courses, experiential learning, problem-based learning and other techniques also allow essential contact time to be focused on high-value interaction…
Tags: budget, ideology, youth
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Hope is real
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Oct. 13, 2012
… The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy… discovered that the failure of the poorest kids was not preordained. Nearly 20 per cent of youngsters who started out as vulnerable, or in need of help, ended up meeting Grade 3 expectations… with the right types of interventions, we can work to ensure that over time there are more positive deflections than negative ones.
Tags: child care, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Let’s unplug the digital classroom
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
October 06, 2012
The use of digital technology in higher education has promoted ignorance, not knowledge, and severely degraded basic reading, writing and thinking skills. It’s time to hit the off button… whether these uses contribute anything to the main goal of higher education: to improve students’ minds and characters by helping them to learn facts, debate ideas and understand the world better. The answer, for the most part, is no — study after study shows that digital technology has dumbed down higher education.
Tags: budget, standard of living, youth
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Don’t fear the education revolution
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
September 21, 2012
A return to three-year undergrads would move students more quickly to two-year masters and three-year PhD programs, or the workforce. It would free up teachers and class and lab space. It would reduce students’ tuition expenses… Online study doesn’t have to mean home study… The latter would be more enriched than before, since the fundamentals would have been imparted online.
Tags: budget, tax, youth
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Re: Don’t fear the education revolution, Sept. 23
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
September 29, 2012
… it was disappointing to see David Olive using the language of the Harris government by calling faculty and administrators self-interested. Are educators more self-interested than bankers, investors, and business owners who neither wish to support publicly funded education nor pay for training themselves?… David Olive’s column is riddled with questionable assumptions, misleading facts and logical mistakes.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s made a choice: health, not education
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Sep. 12 2012
… investments in education aren’t just useful, they’re essential for human development, economic competitiveness, a flourishing democracy, individual fulfilment and raising the productivity on which depends the country’s long-term ability to finance government programs, including health care.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, standard of living
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How affordable is a university education in your province?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
September 11, 2012
A new report… tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordability for median- and low-income families using a Cost of Learning Index.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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McGuinty government’s planned education overhaul will be catastrophic
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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The closing of American academia
Monday, August 27th, 2012
20 August 2012
… like 67 per cent of American university faculty, a part-time employee on a contract that may or may not be renewed each semester. She receives no benefits or health care…
In most professions, salaries below the poverty line would be cause for alarm. In academia, they are treated as a source of gratitude. Volunteerism is par for the course – literally… In addition to teaching, academics conduct research and publish, but they are not paid for this work either.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living
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Canadian multiculturalism ‘under stress’
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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