Topic: Tuition and student fees
A new minister should offer students a new deal
While the McGuinty government showed interest in post-secondary education in its first term, under Colleges, Training and Universities Minister John Milloy, it’s been coasting in neutral, to put it mildly.
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Participation and enrolment, Students, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
Knowing Your Undergraduates
With career-oriented students seeking variety in their university experiences, universities are diversifying their appeal. The downsides are often talked about, but this evolution could well help universities in regions of population decline survive, while offering students clearer choices among a broader range of educational options.
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Equity and social justice, Participation and enrolment, Students, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Tuition and student fees
Broadening accessibility to postsecondary education in Canada
Increasing access to postsecondary education is a challenging problem with no easy solutions. But given Canada’s demographics and the rapidly changing nature of our economy, it’s a problem we cannot ignore. We can’t afford to be satisfied with current participation rates while key components of our population are ill-equipped to engage with the emerging social and economic realities of the twenty-first century.
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Equity and social justice, Politics, Public policy, Research and innovation, Tuition and student fees
All students should benefit from innovation
Stephen Harper’s minority government has been making much of its “innovation strategy” in recent months, especially in regard to how it plays out in post-secondary institutions.
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Equity and social justice, International issues, Students, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
A fresh look at what counts towards student access and success
Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher, eds., Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
The greater good of higher education
A review of Walter W. McMahon, Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
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International issues, Performance assessment, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
A policy maker’s handbook
Richardson, R. and Martinez, M., Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases Across State Systems (Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009).
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Extreme Work-Study
In this excerpt adapted from his recent book, How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, 2008), Marc Bousquet explores the relationship of mass higher education in the United States to a global shift toward precarious employment.
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