First the radicals came for the statues, and some have already been taken down. That was easy because the statues represented dead white men. Now the radicals are coming for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Will it, too, be knocked down? Before the long...
Canadian universities had been shut down since March because of the COVID-19 virus. Yet, during the first week of classes in September, university professors went on a two-day “Scholar Strike” to protest against “anti-black violence.” One wonders why this strike...
No doubt many senior citizens will remember drinking from school water fountains long before students carried water bottles. When the school day began, elementary students would rush to get a drink before class, and the other children would queue up in an orderly...
Canadian students have been out of school for more than a month because of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) pandemic, and parents are taking on increased responsibilities in homeschooling. In many cases, parents are reluctant teachers asking themselves if they are...
The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
When the Premiers were first called to a sit-down lunch to talk about healthcare with Prime Minister Trudeau, there was plenty of talk about the potential for systemic change, innovation and accountability. It seemed that Canadians and their leaders were finally on...
Bill 18 is winding its way through the Manitoba legislature against considerable opposition from parents and schools. Nevertheless, the government is convinced they must have this new anti-bullying legislation. However, by examining what has happened in American universities when they enacted similar policies, we see that this could likely create a gold mine for lawyers, while not improving the situation for students.
PowerPoint slides which accompanied Rodney Clifton’s speech Do Universities Exploit Undergraduates? that he gave in Winnipeg on February 7, 2013.
Attending university is a significant financial investment for Canadian students—and their parents. Over the last 20 years, tuition fees have increased, on average, by a whopping 215 per cent while the Consumer Price Index has increased by 43...
Marcus Winters reviews the research literature on effective teachers and presents a way for school divisions to retain the most effective teachers.
This backgrounder describes how Aboriginal education in Canada could improve significantly if Indian bands and parents took a greater role in the education of the children in their communities, insuring prompt remedial literacy and numeracy.
Canadian universities should use performance-based rewards so that teaching undergraduate students is valued more highly by professors.
This paper proposes a performance-based accountability system for university professors to improve the quality of undergraduate education in Canada.
This backgrounder describes how improved performance measurement for professors can promote transparency and accountability in Canadian universities while improving the quality of undergraduate education.
Universities have perverse incentives encouraging them to enroll increasingly more graduate students. In order to meet the needs of both the students and the economy, universities will need to be forced by ministers of education to align their incentives with the social and economic needs of the country.