By Rosanna Tamburri. York U prof says to focus on quality, not expansion, in higher ed reform. Canadian universities have gone through an unprecedented expansion over the past 15 years. In Ontario, full-time undergraduate enrolment grew by a whopping 75 percent from 1998 to 2008; graduate enrolment was up too, by 60 percent at the master’s level and 70 percent at the PhD level. Federal spending on research increased almost fourfold over the decade. More...
