By . Last month, the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) published a paper entitled “Redefining Access to Postsecondary Education”. It raises a number of interesting questions about access in Ontario (which apply to Canada generally), so it’s worth examination. More...
By . OK, so I was going to share with you some interesting research from Europe and elsewhere on Individual Learning Accounts, which everyone in Ottawa seems to think are going to be A Big Deal in the upcoming budget. More...
By . One of the significant challenges in analyzing policies around international student mobility is that there are multiple competing logics at work within the field. More...
By . While student loans are cheaper (and hence more commonly used) than grants, they still cost money, both in terms of interest subsidies and in terms of loan losses through loan defaults. More...
By . So, le tout Ottawa now seems convinced, given that a) the March budget is allegedly about skills (for the middle class, you know), b) the feds mostly handed the skills portfolio over to the provinces years ago that Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs), are definitely On The Agenda. More...
By . One of the weirder sub-fields of student loan policy concerns how loans are accounted for in national budgets and statistics. This sounds like an abstract consideration, but in fact it has the potential to drive student aid and access policy in some very unexpected directions. More...
By . In a country as vast as Canada, ‘north’ is always relative. Sudbury (46º N) is considered to be in Northern Ontario, but by latitude it is south of Vancouver (49% N), although undeniably much colder in the winter. More...By . The main public report on online and distance learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions was published last month and is available, in English and French, at either https://onlinelearningsurveycanada.ca/ or https://formationenlignecanada.ca/. More...By . The International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education has recently put out a call for papers on this topic. More...By . The public report of the 2018 national survey of online and distance learning in Canadian universities and colleges is now available in English and French for free download on the survey web sites:
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