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Native grads would soar if learning gap closed, activist says
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
June 13, 2011
Canada could be producing 4,200 more home-grown university grads a year and reap an estimated $401 billion more in economic productivity over 25 years if it wiped out the “tragic” learning gap between natives and the rest of Canada, says a First Nations lawyer and activist… Most reserves have waiting lists of students hoping for federal funding for tuition, which has been capped at 2 per cent each year for more than a decade, while the population — and demand for higher learning — has grown.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights, 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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Student money: Ending the cycle of poverty
Friday, June 10th, 2011
Jun 9, 2011
As a single mother who entered university to try to break the cycle of poverty, I now find myself in a $48,800/year job (for which having a degree was mandatory) and carrying monthly Canada Student loan costs of $544/month and BC Student Loan costs of $200/month… My son will be entering university in 6 years, at which time, I expect to still be carrying my own debt, and will be unable to provide full support for his educational costs, and so the cycle of poverty continues as he will be forced to amass debt as well.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax, women, youth
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Ontario shakes up postsecondary funding
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Jun. 02, 2011
Ontario is overhauling the way it finances universities and colleges, replacing some per-student funding with performance-based support intended to discourage an attitude of “growth at all costs” that has been acknowledged to have harmed quality. Although still pushing expansion, the province is pressing some schools to focus more on teaching than on aspiring to grow into elite comprehensive institutions.
Tags: budget, standard of living, youth
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Province to decide on satellite campuses for colleges, universities
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
May 31 2011
The Ontario government no longer will let colleges and universities decide where to set up satellite campuses — as many small and remote schools have done to gain a foothold in the populous GTA. From now on, Queen’s Park alone will determine if, and where, there will be new spinoff sites. The change is a bid to avoid uneven clusters of higher learning in parts of Ontario that leave other corners starved for post-secondary programs…
Tags: budget, ideology, rights
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University professors teach better if they stopped lecturing
Friday, May 13th, 2011
May 12, 2011
Don’t lecture me. As a campus slogan, that could well catch fire in the wake of a new Canadian study suggesting the professorial monologues that have taught young science scholars for centuries should be banned from the classroom… “It should be wholesale transformation; you’re practising bad teaching if you’re not doing (interactive instruction),” says Wieman, who shared the Nobel physics prize in 2001. The study was released Thursday by the journal Science.
Tags: youth
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Enrolment to soar, in spite of demographic shift
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
May 10, 2011
The Ontario government has set a goal of seeing 70 per cent of its population earning a postsecondary credential, be it a trade certificate, a college diploma, or a university degree. The current rate is 64 per cent… if that goal is achieved, the number of full-time students at Ontario universities will rise to 485,000 by 2020, despite an expected decline in the 18-24 population. Full-time enrolment in 2010 was 398,000.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, youth
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When a university degree just isn’t enough
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
May. 09, 2011
While undergraduate enrolments shot up 40 per cent, faculty levels rose only 25 per cent… Annual statistics from the Canadian Association of University Teachers show there were 23.1 students per professor in 2007-2008, compared with fewer than 17 in 1990-91. Universities have allowed these ratios to swell in step with growing costs of salaries, infrastructure and research in order to balance budgets – up to a point, teaching more students with the same faculty members boosts general revenues.
Tags: budget, participation, standard of living, youth
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After-school programs should be non-profit, critics say
Monday, April 11th, 2011
April 8, 2011
“Our government remains committed to ensuring parents have access to affordable, high-quality and on-site before- and after-school care for their children”… Queen’s Park had originally mandated school boards to provide the service by 2012 in schools where at least 15 families request it. But the government backed down last December after a massive lobbying effort from daycares, which feared losing business, and from school boards, which didn’t want the complications of implementing and operating the programs.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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The ultimate public school advantage: Democracy
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Apr 08 2011
Is there anything public schools do that no other form of education can? Only this: Simply by being what they are, they can teach kids about the society they live in. That’s because public schools must let everyone in. What’s unique about public education isn’t the education part, it’s the “public.” Other schools can tell kids about their society but they don’t contain it and show it… public health care… [is] an achievement to take pride in… it’s about survival on a physical level and it’s similar for people everywhere. Education is more specific and social. It’s how we define the way we are, not simply that we are.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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