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Career Opportunities Corporate Services Administrator President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Corporate Services Administrator Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) Toronto, Ontario (Remote – Hybrid) Position Description: The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) is an agency of the Ontario government which brings evidence-based research to the continued improvement of the province’s postsecondary […]
Welcome to the Women in Academia Project HEQCO is pleased to announce the release of a multi-part research project designed to explore current and historical gender disparities among faculty in Ontario universities. Despite advocacy efforts, collective bargaining, targeted funding and legislation, gaps in representation, promotion and earnings for women academics persist. These inequalities are especially […]
How many Ontario students applied to the province’s colleges and universities during the last decade? How many enrolled? How many graduated? Find the answers to these and other good questions in Quick Stats, a compendium of data on Ontario’s postsecondary system. Note: All visualizations begin in 2013 and go up to the most recent year […]
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On Monday, March 22, 2010, the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) launched the book Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, which calls for better teaching practices to improve student learning outcomes at Ontario’s institutions.
A new book released today argues that postsecondary institutions need to enhance faculty teaching practices in order to improve student learning outcomes…
Publication Research Summary: The book is available for purchase at http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2425. This book is based upon a HEQCO-sponsored research symposium that was held in the spring of 2008. The symposium brought together leading experts to “take stock” of the research on teaching and learning in higher education and to explore the implications of key findings. The […]
Ontario has made significant advances in postsecondary participation and compares favourably to its peers in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development jurisdictions, according to a report released today by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario…
Dr. Harvey Weingarten, a distinguished academic and administrator, has been named President of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario…
Summary: Females are outnumbering males in application rates, enrolment and attainment rates at Ontario’s colleges and universities, which begs the question, are males becoming under-represented in Ontario’s postsecondary education landscape? “What About the Boys?” An Overview of Gender Trends in Education and the Labour Market in Ontario provides an overview of gender patterns in participation, […]