Canada-Tuition fees: The higher cost of higher education
For many post-secondary students, the rising cost of tuition tops their list of grievances. And it’s not hard to see why. In the early 1990s, average tuition fees were rising by more than 15 per cent a year at Canada’s universities. While the rate of fee hikes slowed […]
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Education at a Glance
The 2004 edition of the publication Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance. It provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems that represent the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the […]
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Illiteracy:Canada’s shame
Conclusion of a recent study published in The National | May 24, 2006
Nearly 15 per cent of Canadians can’t understand the writing on simple medicine labels such as on an Aspirin bottle, a failing that could seriously limit the ability of a parent, for example, to determine the dangers for a child.
An additional 27 […]
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Calculating College Costs
from Forbes.com
A little-noted draft report from the U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education concludes, “The nation’s system of higher-education finance is increasingly dysfunctional, inefficient and inadequate.”
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Few Rules Protect Young Foreign Students in U.S.
Every year, tens of thousands of teenagers from around the globe come to the United States to live and learn. Most go home with positive memories of America…
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A Third of U.S. Dropouts Never Reach 10th Grade A recent article in NY Times gives a disappointed outlook about American education.More than a third of high school dropouts across the nation leave school without ever going beyond the ninth grade.
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