A book on education reform released today says Ontario, with 19 universities and the largest number of students in of any province in Canada, should follow other provinces by creating undergraduate-only institutions. The book, Academic Transformation: The Forces Reshaping Higher Education in Ontario, was commissioned by the independent Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. It argues that the standard model of undergraduate education in Ontario is based on the belief that students should be taught only by faculty members engaged in original research, according to the council’s news release. “It is simply not affordable to have undergraduates taught only by faculty who devote the same amount of time and effort to research as to teaching,” said one of the authors, Michael Skolnik, a professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
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One Response to Ontario’s University System Is Unsustainable, Says New Book
strider - November 30, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Pity that pig farming isn’t as intensive in Ontario as in Quebec because either the report or this summary of it is high-grade hogwash.I.e., it has very little relationship to the reality where a large number of classes, esp. in the largest universities, are already being taught by adjunct faculty, who may be engaged in original research but on their own dime and time.