On Our Radar features HEQCO staff and guest bloggers offering their unique perspectives on trends, new ideas, and hot-button issues in higher education. The opinions are those of the authors. With March bringing us both International Women’s Day and National Engineering month, the temptation to reflect on the state of women in engineering is practically […]
Fifty years ago tomorrow, on March 21, 1963, Premier John Robarts announced the plan that shaped Ontario’s higher education system as we now know it. His statement was delivered as part of routine proceedings in the Legislature, book-ended by statements about LCBO outlets and the Ontario Food Council. He spoke for about an hour. One […]
I have been working on a large international project with a colleague from HEQCO for the past year or so and have been fascinated hearing about the work that goes on in the higher education space in Canada, and particularly Ontario. So when an opportunity to visit Toronto and participate in the Learning to Earning […]
At HEQCO’s November Learning to Earning Conference, UBC labour economist Craig Riddell presented the results of his research with David Green on literacy skills, recently published as “Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, US and Norway.” The findings are alarming and support the concern that David Trick, Richard Van Loon and I expressed in […]
A few weeks after our Learning to Earning conference, we here at HEQCO are still replaying the lively discussions that took place during and after sessions (especially next to that break-time popcorn machine). For those who couldn’t make it to the event, here are a few takeaways from a research analyst/rookie conference planner/perpetual student at […]
On Our Radar features HEQCO staff and guest bloggers offering their unique perspectives on trends, new ideas and hot-button issues in higher education. The opinions are those of the authors. For years, postsecondary institutions have collected massive amounts of data but have not used them to their full capacity. Postsecondary institutions have a vested […]
On Our Radar features HEQCO staff and guest bloggers offering their unique perspectives on trends, new ideas and hot-button issues in higher education. The opinions are those of the authors. Enter the words Millennials and expectations into a search engine and odds are you will be bombarded with a variety of synonyms for entitled, unrealistic […]
On Our Radar features HEQCO staff and guest bloggers offering their unique perspectives on trends, new ideas, and hot-button issues in higher education. The opinions are those of the authors. A recent Toronto Star article detailed the extraordinary story of the 18-year old Mississauga high school graduate Yoonseo Kang and his decision to accept a […]
OECD’s recently released Education at a Glance 2012 is comparatively good news for Canada and even more so for Ontario. But in a twist on the old cliché, good news is the enemy of great news. Evident within the 500-plus pages of international educational performance measures are at least two lessons: the dangers of complacency […]