We need a long-term plan for the post-secondary sector in Canada

It isn’t just COVID-19 that led us here. Changes in the federal social transfer in the 1990s shifted the ground beneath the sector’s feet.

Around we go: Government policy focuses on increasing students’ ability to pay tuition fees without addressing institutions’ funding shortfalls, so institutions increase tuition fees, so governments spend more to maintain students’ ability to pay, writes Julia M. Wright.Pexels photograph by Andrea Piacquadio

Opinion

BY JULIA M. WRIGHT

September 15, 2021

For decades, Canada’s universities and colleges have been adrift. There have been reports and targeted programs, but no long-term plan to sustain a complex sector that generates research, supports federal policies from immigration to economic development, and helps educate about half of adults in ...

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