Tracy Wang The University of British Columbia (UBC) recently began construction on Vantage College, the home for its unique Vantage One program. The 11 month-long program is designed for international students who are academically qualified, but fail to meet the university’s minimum English language requirements. Students at the College will have a customized curriculum with specialized language instruction…
Tag: Post-Secondary
The Boys, the Girls, and Everybody Else: The Great Education Debate
Anna Hodgins The ‘men versus women’ debate is an old classic that still pushes buttons and sparks discussion. Power dynamics between the sexes has been a hot topic for decades, but more recently it has included a new discussion about men’s position relative to the expanding opportunities open to women (in general) since the 1950s….
Recent Research on the Benefits of University for Marginal Students: Implications for Ontario’s Enrollment Planning
Ian D. Clark On average, people who attend university enjoy higher lifetime earnings than those who don’t. Men in Canada who hold a bachelor’s degree earn, on average, 45 percent more than men who have a high school diploma; for women, the figure is 60 percent (Boothby and Drewes, 2010). But what about “marginal students”…
How the Student Protesters Won The Quebec Election
Matt Thompson Earlier this month, after a hard-fought and often bitter campaign, Quebec voters accomplished something rare – they managed to disappoint almost every major player on the electoral stage. The Liberals lost their mandate after nine years, with some of their core supporters abandoning them for a party that makes their stomachs turn. After…
The Undergraduate Crisis in Ontario
John Blattler A great deal of hand wringing throughout Canada’s universities has marked 2011. After decades of topsy-turvy growth, schools are finally assessing the effect of this on undergraduate education. Most do not like what they see. Robert Campbell, president of Mount Allison University, told a conference of his fellow university presidents in March that:…
Effect of Rising Tuition on Low to Middle Income Families
Shranna Jaggernath If you want a good middle class job, you need to go to university. That’s what we’ve been told, and we listened. This past August, the Council of Ontario Universities announced that a record number of 90,000 students had enrolled in Ontario universities for the fall, 2000 more than 2003 when OAC was…
