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Toronto’s recipe for prosperity: More graduates – and more paths to good jobs- The Globe and Mail
April 16, 2013
Toronto’s lagging productivity and innovation are well documented sore spots. But where remedies have focused mostly on investing in research and equipment, a new report sounds a different warning: Th...
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Ontario should force colleges, universities to specialize, says expert panel- Toronto Star
April 16, 2013
Despite the Ontario government’s call for more specialization by colleges and universities — less overlap, more differences between them — schools have failed to come up with enough ways to differenti...
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The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Higher Education at the Crossroads - TVO
April 16, 2013
The world is changing. Education is not immune from this change. How different will higher education be by the year 2030? If it is to survive and thrive, very different. The Agenda examines the future...
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Canada must make profound changes to succeed: Lynch - University Affairs
November 15, 2012
In a quickly changing world marked by increased globalization, a shift in the balance of economic power towards emerging economies, and a shrinking workforce, Canadian governments, businesses and univ...
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Can Canada's schools pass the next great intelligence test? - The Globe and Mail
October 9, 2012
Canada boasts, deservedly, of creating one of the most educated populations in the world with 56 per cent of people 25 to 34 years old having a postsecondary credential. But as the number of full- and...
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‘Game-Changers’ in Global Ed - Inside Higher Ed
September 17, 2012
“We are in a period of very big change,” said Gudrun Paulsdottir, an international strategist at Sweden’s Mälardalen University, who completed her term as the association’s president on Friday. She s...
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Universities in the Digital Age - CBC Radio
September 11, 2012
A virtual classroom with hundreds of thousands of participants who will never meet each other. The professor on a screen or, better still, behind one. Tests graded by other students.
It sounds lik...
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Financial Literacy: Making Cents Of It All - Professionally Speaking
August 30, 2012
ROGER WELHAM, OCT, WALKED SOMEWHAT APPREHENSIVELY into his Grade 11 Canadian Law classroom. He was about to deliver a lesson on citizen rights and freedoms with real-life content, introducing his doze...
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Do smart phones make smarter students? Some educators think so - Ottawa Citizen
August 13, 2012
Can an app today keep bad grades away?
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Native teens from across Canada urged to take up law as a career - Toronto Star
July 16, 2012
She was one of 35 native teenagers from across Canada who took part in the first Aboriginal Youth Summer Program hosted by the faculties of law at York University and the University of Toronto as a wa...
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