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Rodney Clifton responds to an article in the Winnipeg Free Press.
On February 1, university students held noisy demonstrations because they are paying too much in fees and receiving too little in education; however, if they examined the budgets of universities they would see that a large part of the expenditures is to pay high-priced professors and even higher-priced administrators.
At the University of Manitoba, there are a number of departments that duplicate courses and programs and these departments could be combined so that more professors would be teaching courses rather than administering departments.
Senior university and college administrators in Canada have been receiving salary increases at a faster pace than their faculty colleagues.
Universities’ professors could create examinations which the students could take for, say, $100.00, and if they passed, they would receive course credit on their university transcript.
There is absolutely no good empirical evidence that teachers’ in-service programs improve the academic performances of their students.
Parents can contribute to the improvement of their children’s education by demanding that politicians push for a core curriculum in schools, standardised testing and teachers who are better trained in specialised academic areas.
Parents can do their part in ensuring that the teachers who teach their children are the best ones around.
A shift in the design of education curricula has resulted in students not getting to the higher levels of understanding the subjects that are often required in colleges and universities.