Professors teaching less? That’s measuring the wrong thing

By Kate Lawson. Do universities have a productivity problem, or do they have a quality problem?
If you believe a new report by the government-funded Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, everything in Ontario’s universities comes down to productivity. If professors could somehow teach more courses, HEQCO asserts, our institutions could cope with a financial crunch caused by stagnant government funding and rising enrolment. More...