Category: Academia

Before reality intruded with a bunch of interesting stories from Ontario and New Brunswick, I was talking about the ways Canadian higher education is achieving less than it could: how the practice of our federal system condemns us to incoherence, how provincial governments are insufficiently focussed on results and how institutions don’t take internal quality assurance or improvement seriously. But what to do about it? First, we need to diagnose the problem correctly.  Clearly, this is not a problem with a single source: pretty much