By Dan Lang A previous post discussed how the recent HEQCO report, The Differentiation of the Ontario System: Where we are and where we should go?, is the latest instalment of an on-going debate in Ontario about differentiation. This post addresses questions the report itself raises about how its conclusions were drawn about differentiation, including…Read More
Are we asking the right questions about differentiation in Ontario higher education? A look at the HEQCO report (Part 1)
July 21, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Dan Lang When thinking about systems of higher education three books that I often return to are Burton Clark’s The Higher Education System, Diana Crane’s Invisible Colleges, and Steven Scott’s Seeing Like a State. All three provide insightful prisms through which to view HEQCO’s most recent discussion of differentiation.
Ontario’s Credit Transfer Information System: A Game of Snakes and Ladders
July 18, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Christine Arnold Have you ever played a game of Snakes and Ladders with friends or family? At the end of the game, were you frustrated by the sheer amount of time you were forced to spend playing to arrive at an outcome? Humour me for a minute and picture yourself as a pawn in…Read More
CIHR Needs a Leadership Review
July 15, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Creso Sá On July 13, Canada’s health scientists followed attentively a meeting of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Ottawa. The CIHR Summit brought together about 50 researchers and agency staff to debate a way out of the CIHR’s peer-review reform debacle. That the meeting happened in the first place represented a victory for the research community, as did…Read More
Is England’s Post-16 Skills Plan on the right track?
July 13, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Gavin Moodie In 1935 the President of the UK Board of Education averred: It has, I believe, been an old complaint among many concerned with the technical side of education that that part of education has been the Cinderella. Well, the Government is determined that even if there was any truth in that in…Read More
CIHE Director and PhD student write for University World News on the impact of Brexit for Canadian Universities
July 12, 2016 | Uncategorised
CIHE Director, Creso Sa, and PhD student, Emma Sabzalieva, have recently published an article with University World News entitled “How Brexit matters to higher education beyond Europe”. A link to the article can be found here: http://goo.gl/h8LJNk The authors discuss some of the influences this decision will have on higher education within the British context…Read More
Measuring Success in College-University Partnerships
July 11, 2016 | CIHE Events
By Christine Arnold On May 19th the University Partnership Centre at Georgian College and the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto co-hosted a symposium discussing the various dimensions of college-university partnerships. Over 100 participants gathered in the inspiring…Read More
What will ‘modernized’ apprenticeships look like in Ontario?
July 6, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Gavin Moodie The recent report of the Premier of Ontario’s Highly Skilled Workforce Expert Panel contains several proposals for ‘Building the workforce of tomorrow’ as the panel calls its report. One proposal is for ‘modernized’ apprenticeships. This is all of the panel’s description of its proposal:
How not to draw higher education policy lessons from abroad: The Conference Board Report ‘High Inequality, Higher Education’
July 4, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Creso Sá On June 30 the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education released the report High Inequality, Higher Education – Merit, Access, and Equal Opportunity in Brazil. The goal of the report is to highlight policy efforts to address social inequality through higher education. Regrettably, the report contains serious factual…Read More
Brexit: More than ever, we need globally-minded citizens
June 28, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Diane Barbaric Like millions of people around the world, when I woke up on June 24th and saw that the “Leave” vote in the UK’s EU Referendum was over the 50% threshold, I was shell-shocked. But then I couldn’t help but wonder if the results might have been different if more people in the UK…Read More