June 28, 2002

In Ontario, a High-School-Student Bubble Makes Trouble for Universities

By DOUG PAYNE

Ontario, Canada's most populous province, will produce double the usual number of high-school graduates next year, and the problems this is spawning are already putting the province's universities under pressure, while creating recruiting opportunities for other Canadian and American institutions.

The increase in graduates is due to a change in the province's high-school curriculum. Ontario has been the only province in Canada with a five-year secondary-school curriculum, but a

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