Nothing Less than Great : : Reforming Canada’s Universities / / Harvey P. Weingarten.
Canada’s public higher education system is in trouble. The economic and social benefits of the Canadian university system are widely seen as a public good, which raises a pressing question: Why should we aspire to anything less than a great system? For that to happen, everything about the way univer...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | UTP Insights
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Why This Book, by Me, Now?
- 2 Is Going to University Worth It?
- 3 Who Goes to University, and Do All Have an Equal Chance to Attend?
- 4 What Should Students Learn at University, and Are They Learning It?
- 5 The Relationship between University Education and Jobs
- 6 How Should a Government Manage Its Public University System?
- 7 Why Are Canadian Universities So Slow to Innovate?
- 8 Are Canadian Universities Sustainable?
- Chapter nine Are Canadian Universities High Quality?
- Chapter ten Canada’s Public Universities in a Post-COVID World
- Chapter eleven Conclusion: A Recipe for Reform
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography: Books Cited in the Text
- Index