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Updated December 22, 2011
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Government of Canada makes education more affordable for part time students
http://goo.gl/4cFWD
News Release
December 21, 2011 — Today, the Government of Canada announced a new measure to improve access to post-secondary education. Beginning January 1, 2012 new and existing loans for part-time students will be interest-free during study. Dr. Kellie Leitch, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, made the announcement today at the University of Toronto, on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley.
Source:
Canada News Centre
http://news.gc.ca/web/index-eng.do

From the
Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services (U. of Ottawa):

IMPACT : Winter 2011/2012
(PDF - 1.1MB, 19 pages)
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/crecs/eng/documents/impact_11_12_14.pdf
December 14, 2011

Table des matières / Table of Contents
* Comparaison de la stabilité de logement au sein d’une population itinérante diversifiée
* Evaluation Capacity Building in India Moves to Second Cycle
* Students who use AWHC (Academic Writing Help Centre ) and SASS (Student Academic Success Service) services enjoy higher level of academic success and retention rates
* New Sounds of Learning Project : Examining the parameters of educational music?
* SHARP-E: Supported Housing Addiction Recovery Program Evaluation
* Outcomes from an evaluation of the Bon Appétit!: University of Ottawa’s food bank
* Nouvelles et Évenements Récents/Recent News and Events
* Sommes-nous sur la bonne voie? Résumé d'une évaluation de l'évaluabilité d'un cours de conduite pour adultes âgés
* Cultural Competence Evaluation and Health Equity Needs Assessment for Work with Ethno-Cultural Minority Clients at Centretown Community Health Centre
* Personnel List
* List of Senior & Affiliate Researcher

Earlier issues of IMPACT
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/crecs/eng/pub_newsletter.asp
- links to 17 issues of the newsletter back to the Winter of 2001

Liens vers les 17 numéros précédents du bulletin:
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/crecs/fra/pub_bulletin.asp

Source:
Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/crecs/eng/index.asp
Part of:
Faculty of Social Sciences:
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/eng/index.asp
Part of:
University of Ottawa
http://www.uottawa.ca/welcome.html

Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the European Union: Social Policy Engagement across Complex Multilevel Systems
http://web.uvic.ca/jmc/events/sep2011-aug2012/2011-10-modes-of-gov/

On October 14-15, 2011 the University of Victoria hosted a successful conference entitled Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the European Union: Social Policy Engagement across Complex Multilevel Systems. Almost 100 people (representing academia, practitioners, students, NGOs, business and citizens) heard 32 presentations from leading Canadian and European scholars and practitioners on:
* why compare Canada and the European Union;
* how multilevel governance in Canada and the European Union actually work;
* Canadian and EU experiences with employment and training, postsecondary education and social inclusion governance; and
* the courts as arbiters of multilevel governance.
Those who attended noted that they found the EU comparison and the ensuing conversation about similarities and differences to Canada useful as a way of reflecting on Canadian governance practices.

The conference website has now been updated with a summary of proceedings, the powerpoints/presentations, as well as video clips from selected presenters, see http://web.uvic.ca/jmc/events/sep2011-aug2012/2011-10-modes-of-gov/

Summary of Proceedings (PDF - 276K, 18 pages)
http://goo.gl/YsBeq

Links to presentations and reports
http://web.uvic.ca/jmc/events/sep2011-aug2012/2011-10-modes-of-gov/papers.php
- 27 papers and presentations organized by panel and by presenter's name
NOTE : The names each of the seven panels and the titles of presentations don't appear in the list - only names of presenters.
You can click each of the 27 links to check its content,
OR
You can open the conference program:
http://web.uvic.ca/jmc/events/sep2011-aug2012/2011-10-modes-of-gov/program.php
... where you'll find the names of the participants on each panel and the title of all presentations.
Select a paper or presentation, then return to the 27 Presentations page to click the link to that item.

Panels include:
Panel A : Conceptualizing Multilevel Governance and Federalism. Why Compare Canada and the European Union (EU) and How?
Panel B : The Practice of Governance in Canada and the European Union
Panel C : Managing Shared Governance in Employment and Training Policy
Panel D : Managing Shared Governance in Post-secondary Education Policy
Panel E : Managing Shared Governance in Social Inclusion Policy
Panel F : Managing Shared Governance in Social Inclusion Policy
Panel G : The Courts as Arbiters of Multilevel Governance

Speakers/presenters include (to name but a few) : Amy Verdun - André Juneau - Harvey Lazar - Donna E. Wood (conference organizer) - Thomas Townsend - Sheila Regehr - Keith Banting - Terrance Hunsley - many more...

Source:
Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the European Union:
Social Policy Engagement across Complex Multilevel Systems
http://web.uvic.ca/jmc/events/sep2011-aug2012/2011-10-modes-of-gov/
Conference (October 14-15, 2011)
University of Victoria

Federal Post-Secondary Education Act
By Nick Falvo
November 6, 2011
Last month, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) released a document entitled Public Education for the Public Good: A National Vision for Canada’s Post-Secondary Education System (PDF - 1.5MB, 28 pages). I found the document to be quite informative, filled with a lot of useful statistics.
For example:
- Enrolment is rising in colleges and universities across Canada.
- Federal funding for post-secondary education (PSE) in Canada has decreased very substantially since the late-1970s.
- In light of rising tuition, substantially more university students work during the academic year today than 30 years ago.
- Class sizes are getting bigger.
- The Canada Social Transfer, which transfers funding to provinces, does not require provinces to actually use federal funding for PSE for PSE purposes.

Source:
Progressive Economics Forum
The Progressive Economics Forum aims to promote the development of a progressive economics community in Canada. The PEF brings together over 125 progressive economists, working in universities, the labour movement, and activist research organizations.

Mad Students Society (MSS) is a free peer support and advocacy group for students who are attending institutions of post-secondary or adult education and have past and/or present experiences with the psychiatric and/or mental health systems. MSS meets on the second Saturday of every month in downtown Toronto and maintains an email discussion listserv (open to anyone, regardless of geographic location). Please pass on this information to people you are supporting who may find this group a useful resource. If you are working with someone who wants support to join the group, please get in touch.
For more information or to request brochures for your office, please email outreach@madstudentsociety.com.
The MSS website is currently being updated.

What's new from
The Daily
[Statistics Canada]:

September 16, 2011
University tuition fees, 2011/2012
Canadian full-time students in undergraduate programs paid 4.3% more on average in tuition fees for the 2011/2012 academic year this fall than they did a year earlier. This follows a 4.0% increase in 2010/2011.
- includes four tables:
--- Average undergraduate tuition fees for Canadian full-time students, by province
--- Average graduate tuition fees for Canadian full-time students, by province
--- Average undergraduate tuition fees for Canadian full-time students by faculty
--- Average graduate tuition fees for Canadian full-time students by faculty

Related subjects:
* Education, training and learning
* Education finance

McGuinty Proposes Undergraduate Tuition Grant
By Nick Falvo
September 14, 2011
[NOTE : Read the Comments section at the bottom of the article for clarification of the Liberal tuition grant promise (the Devil's in the details...) and links to further information.]

An Ontario election is slated for October 6, and the reigning Liberal Party will attempt to pull off a third consecutive majority government. In that vein, the Liberals have recently made a slew of campaign promises in the post-secondary education (PSE) sector. Notably, they’ve committed to reducing undergraduate tuition for “middle-class Ontario families” by 30 percent, amounting to “$1600 per student in university and $730 per student in college.” According to a September 5 Toronto Star article: “The tuition break would be available only to students from families with a gross household income of $160,000 or less a year — about 86 per cent of the 360,000 students currently enrolled — and would take effect Jan. 1.”

Source:
Progressive Economics Forum

- Go to the Political Parties and Elections Links in Canada (Provinces and Territories) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/politics_prov_terr.htm

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Also by the same author:

Post-Secondary Education in Newfoundland and Labrador
By Nick Falvo
September 16, 2011
Last March, Keith Dunne and I wrote an opinion piece on Danny Williams’ post-secondary education (PSE) legacy in Newfoundland and Labrador. Among other things, we pointed out that average undergraduate tuition fees (for domestic students) in Newfoundland and Labrador are $2,624/yr., compared with $5,138 for Canada as a whole and $6,307 in Ontario. With a provincial election slated to take place in Newfoundland and Labrador on October 11, Newfoundland and Labrador’s NDP is proposing to take the province even further down the path of PSE affordability.

Source:
Progressive Economics Forum

Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the European Union:
Social Policy Engagement across Complex Multilevel Systems
Conference (October 14-15, 2011)
University of Victoria
On October 14-15, 2011 the University of Victoria, Canada is hosting an international conference, Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the European Union (EU): Social Policy Engagement across Complex Multilevel Systems, featuring over 30 EU and Canadian scholars and practitioners expert in comparative federalism and/or multilevel governance. The conference provides a unique opportunity to compare how we govern social policy with the European Union, and assess whether best practice lessons from the EU might improve social policy governance in Canada. (...) ‘Soft’ governance tools through the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) - including voluntary coordinated action, exchange of best practices, benchmarking, codes of conduct, and comparative analysis - help EU member states work towards pan-European goals and policy convergence while respecting their differences.

[Although there is no fee for the conference, registration is required.]

Program at a glance (impressive list of topics, speakers and presenters; more detailed program to come)

Source:
University of Victoria

From
Statistics Canada:

August 24, 2011
Study: University completion by parents' educational attainment, 2009
HTML
PDF (112K)
People who have parents with a university degree remain more likely to get a university education than children whose parents do not have a degree, although the gap between the two groups has narrowed over time. In 1986, 12% of Canadian-born people aged 25 to 39 whose parents did not complete university had graduated from university. By 2009, this proportion had almost doubled to 23%.

Source:
Canadian Social Trends - Product main page*
This publication discusses the social, economic, and demographic changes affecting the lives of Canadians
[ * Click "View" for the latest issue of this periodical;
click "Chronological index" for earlier editions. ]

Related subjects:

* Education, training and learning
* Fields of study
* Outcomes of education
* Educational attainment
* Ethnic diversity and immigration
* Education, training and skills
* Families, households and housing
* Family history

Education Indicators in Canada: Fact Sheets - Product main page*
The fact sheets in this series provide an "at-a-glance" overview of particular aspects of education in Canada and summarize key data trends in selected tables published as part of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). The PCEIP mission is to publish a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada for policy makers, practitioners and the general public to monitor the performance of education systems across jurisdictions and over time.
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[ * On the product main page,click "View" to see the latest issue of this report online; click "Chronological index" for earlier issues. ]

45th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association
June 2 - 5, 2011
University of Ottawa
- includes links to conference program (see below), registration details, travel and accommodation information, etc.

Conference program - includes all speakers & presenters, locations and times

Source:
Canadian Economics Association

Related link:

Progressive Economics Forum at the
Canadian Economics Association meetings
Here's a selection of Progressive Economics Forum sessions scheduled for the Canadian Economics Association conference on June 3-5 at the University of Ottawa:
* Debt Wall? Trends in Canadian Household Debt ?
* Financial Literacy: Where are We and Where Should We be Going
* Philosophy of Money and Finance
* The European Debt and Currency Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for North America
* Dissecting the Fiscal Issues Facing Canada
* Canadian Provincial Budgeting Priorities and Risks
* Measuring the Credit Union Difference: The Economic Consequences of Credit Unions.
Source:
Progressive Economics Forum

Reforming Ontario’s Universities
By Nick Falvo
March 31, 2011
I have just finished reading a 2009 book entitled Academic Transformation: The Forces Reshaping Higher Education in Ontario. The book (...) has received a fair bit of attention among post-secondary (PSE) wonks. While I find it informative, I am uncomfortable with the book’s central feature: a proposal to reform Ontario’s PSE sector with the main goal of bringing about substantial cost savings.
Source:
Progressive Economics Forum

Danny Williams’ Post-Secondary Education Legacy
Last December, Danny Williams stepped down as premier of
Newfoundland and Labrador. When he did, he was the most popular premier in Canada.
March 18, 2011
By Keith Dunne and Nick Falvo
While Williams will be remembered by most as a fighter who brought his province from have-not to have status, one of the best-kept secrets in Canadian social policy is that he was also one of Canada’s greatest champions of affordable post-secondary education. (...) Since 2003, the Williams government has increased funding for post-secondary education in Newfoundland and Labrador by about 82 per cent. (...) Today, average undergraduate tuition fees in Newfoundland and Labrador are $2,624 per year for a domestic student, compared with $5,138 for Canada as a whole, $5,318 in oil-rich Alberta, and $6,307 in Ontario. (...)
When Premier Williams stepped down, Angus Reid’s vice-president stated that Williams’ popularity was “extraordinary by Canadian standards.” By contrast, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is behind in the polls by a considerable margin as university students in his province pay the highest tuition fees in Canada. As McGuinty tries to differentiate himself from other party leaders, he’d be well advised to look at Danny Williams’ record on post-secondary education. If making a post-secondary education affordable worked on the Rock, it can work in other provinces too.
[ Keith Dunne is Newfoundland and Labrador Organizer for the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). Nick Falvo is a PhD candidate at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration and Vice-President Finance of Carleton’s Graduate Students’ Association.]
Source:
Academic Matters

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Related link:

From the
Québec Budget 2011-2012
(March 17, 2011):

Tuition hike sparks anger among Que. students
Budget sets out increases of $1,625 over five years
March 18, 2011
Quebec university students angry about five years of tuition hikes are planning to show the province's finance minister their opposition in person on Friday. The Quebec Federation of University Students (FECQ) is planning a noon-hour rally outside a downtown Montreal hotel where Finance Minister Raymond Bachand will speak to business leaders. Bachand, in his provincial budget tabled Thursday, announced that post-secondary tuition will be going up $325 per year for each of the next five years to help cash-strapped universities deal with funding shortfalls.
Source:
CBC News

New and recent
from Statistics Canada:

January 6, 2011
Study: Labour market outcomes of Canadian doctoral graduates, 2007
In 2005, about 4,200 candidates earned a doctorate degree in Canada, roughly one-tenth of the 43,400 doctorates awarded in the United States. By 2007, 12% of doctoral recipients who had graduated from a Canadian university in 2005 were living in the United States. The majority of those graduates were planning to return to Canada.

The study:

Expectations and Labour Market Outcomes of Doctoral Graduates from Canadian Universities
By Louise Desjardins and Darren King
January 2011
HTML version
PDF version (429K, 60 pages)
The study provides a profile of doctoral holders two years after graduation by examining their demographics and program characteristics as well as their expectations at the time of graduation. It also analyses their mobility patterns, with a particular focus on graduates who moved to the United States. Finally it examines the graduates' labour market outcomes, including employment rates, income, industry and the prevalence of over-qualification as compared to the graduates' expectations.

Related subjects:
* Education, training and learning
* Fields of study
* Outcomes of education
* Labour
* Employment and unemployment

Source:
Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics: Research Papers
[Click "View" to see the latest research paper online;
click "Chronological index" for earlier research papers.]

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December 13, 2010
Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada - December 2010
This issue of Statistics Canada's free online publication, Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, contains two articles.

Trade qualifiers in the skilled trades in Canada: An overview draws a profile of "trade qualifiers" in 2007, using data from the Registered Apprenticeship Information System. A trade qualifier is a person who has not completed an apprenticeship program, but has acquired enough practical work experience to pass exams leading to a certificate of qualification in their trade.

The second article, Trends in the age composition of college and university students and graduates examines changes in the age composition of college and university students and graduates over time. It also examines these changes by other student characteristics, including sex, status as an international student, and program level.

This issue also provides links to a series of new tables on population size, low income, public and private expenditure on education, elementary-secondary school enrolments and educators, enrolments and completions in postsecondary education, university educators, and transitions to postsecondary education and to the labour market, all part of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program. Also included are updates to the Handbook for the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program, which outlines the methodology for this set of indicators.

Source:
Education Matters - main product page*
This free online periodical provides summary information on issues and gives access to education indicators and Canadian education analysis. It presents information, statistics and analysis in a non-technical, highly readable format for teachers, students, parents, education associations, researchers and policy makers [ This free online periodical provides summary information on issues and gives access to education indicators and Canadian education analysis. It presents information, statistics and analysis in a non-technical, highly readable format for teachers, students, parents, education associations, researchers and policy makers
[ * On the product main page,click "View" to see the latest issue of this report online; click "Chronological index" for earlier issues. ]

Related products:

* Learning Resources at Statistics Canada - For Teachers - For Students - For Kids - Postsecondary
* Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program
* Education Indicators in Canada: Fact Sheets
* Statistics by Subject : Education, Training and Learning
* Education finance

Source:
Statistics Canada

A New Minister Should Offer Students a New Deal
December 3, 2010
By Nick Falvo
While the McGuinty government showed interest in post-secondary education in its first term, under Colleges, Training and Universities Minister John Milloy, it’s been coasting in neutral, to put it mildly. (...) Milloy hasn’t just demonstrated that he won’t stand up for students, he’s made a case for the fact that Ontario universities don’t even recognize him as the minister in charge. Premier McGuinty should demonstrate that he really is the “education premier,” willing to offer students a new deal. And he should start by replacing John Milloy as minister.
[ Nick Falvo is vice-president finance of Carleton’s Graduate Students’ Association. ]
Source:
Academic Matters
Academic Matters explores issues of relevance to higher education in Ontario, other provinces in Canada, and globally. It is intended to be a forum for thoughtful and thought-provoking, original and engaging discussion of current trends in post-secondary education and consideration of academe’s future direction.

Two recent items in the media on
post-secondary education in Canada
by Nick Falvo:

The Big Five Proposal: Why We Shouldn’t Pick Winners
October 2010
Just over a year ago, a debate emerged in Canada over the so-called “Big Five” proposal for Canadian universities. While it succeeded in grabbing headlines, I wouldn’t put my money on it ever seeing the light of day. At best, the proposal represents ill-advised and overly-simplistic thinking. At worst, it’s a shameless attempt by five university presidents to bring more prestige to their respective schools, irrespective of the impact on the broader post-secondary education system. Last year, the presidents of the universities of Toronto, McGill, UBC, Alberta and Montréal requested an interview with MacLean’s. Paul Wells summed up the interview as follows: “An hour into our conversation, the five presidents had called for more research money, the ability to concentrate more on graduate education, fewer undergrads, more international students, and the right to charge higher tuition in return for increased financial assistance to the least affluent students.”
Source:
Academic Matters

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Give Carleton funds to recruit foreign students (dead link - try a Google search)
October 14, 2010
Letter to the editor (see the link below)
Re: Foreign-student plan stirs Carleton debate
First-year of university program would be privately run
I enjoyed reading Matthew Pearson's very informative article about Navitas, a for-profit company wanting to both recruit and teach international students at Carleton University. However, there is an alternative to allowing a private company such a role in university teaching. To be sure, Carleton University could easily do on its own what Navitas is proposing to do -- but, due largely to insufficient funding from the McGuinty government, Carleton lacks the up-front money needed to recruit on the same scale as Navitas...
Source:
Ottawa Citizen

Related link:

Re: Foreign-student plan stirs Carleton debate
First-year of university program would be privately run
By Matthew Pearson,
October 7, 2010
Ottawa Citizen

Selected content from
The Daily [Statistics Canada]:

September 29, 2010
Study: Employment patterns of postsecondary students, 2010
Employment patterns for postsecondary students who work during the school year changed significantly during the recent economic downturn. During the 2009/2010 school year, about 542,000 postsecondary students aged 15 to 24 held jobs. This represented an employment rate of 45%, down from 48% in 2007/2008, just before the economic downturn. Nevertheless, these rates were well above those during the 1970s when 25% of students were employed.
* Study Highlights
* Full article:
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--- PDF (214K, 13 pages)
Source:
Perspectives on Labour and Income - product main page
This publication brings together and analyzes a wide range of labour and income data. Topics include youth in the labour market, pensions and retirement, work arrangements, education and training, and trends in family income.
* On the product main page, click "View" to see the latest issue of this report online; click "Chronological index" for earlier issues.

Should Students Pay One Flat Fee for a Degree?
By Nick Falvo
September 29, 2010
Yesterday afternoon, Alex Usher–who regularly blogs for the Globe and Mail on post-secondary education–blogged about an innovative concept proposed by the (now ousted) Liberal Party in New Brunswick’s recent provincial election campaign. The proposal is for universities to charge students one flat fee for the cost of a degree. Usher argues in favour of this move on the basis that it would give students and their families “more certainty in pricing.”...
Source:
Blog : Relentlessly Progressive Economics
Part of:
Progressive Economics Forum

Also by the same author:

The Pathway College Concept:
One more step towards corporatizing our universities
By Nick Falvo
September 18, 2010
Those who spend a good deal of their lives on university campuses have been hearing a lot lately about companies such as Navitas and Study Group International, companies that promote the “pathway college concept.” The jury is still out on what they will mean for post-secondary education in Canada. At best, a healthy level of concern is in order. At worst, they represent the next step in the ongoing “corporatization” of Canadian campuses. (...) For faculty associations representing professors, pathways colleges threaten to erode the quality of teaching at Canadian universities. Indeed, some detractors of the pathways concept believe the profit motive will inevitably result in international students being misled into believing their chances of gaining entry into the university are greater than they really are.
Source:
Academic Matters

New research report looks at student’s willingness to pay and to borrow for PSE back
News Release
September 28, 2010
A new research report released today by the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) and the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) investigates the roles that financial barriers may play in the under-representation of certain groups in post-secondary education (PSE). It shows that negative perceptions about the costs of PSE and about taking up student loans may discourage some students from pursuing a post-secondary education.

The executive summary (PDF - 1.2MB, 22 pages)

The report:

Willingness to Pay for Postsecondary Education
Among Under-represented Groups (PDF - 1.3MB, 66 pages)
By Boris Palameta and Jean-Pierre Voyer
Table of Contents:
* Introduction
* Design
* Implementation
* Demand for Student Financial Aid
* The Determinants of Price Sensitivity
* Loan Aversion
* Conclusions
* References

Appendices
(research tools used in this study):
(published separately)
Appendix A: Choices (PDF - 971K, 48 pages)
Appendix B: Surveys (PDF - 396K, 45 pages)

Source:
Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) is a non-profit research organization, created specifically to develop, field test, and rigorously evaluate new programs. SRDC’s two-part mission is to help policymakers and practitioners identify policies and programs that improve the wellbeing of all Canadians, with a special concern for the effects on the disadvantaged, and to raise the standards of evidence that are used in assessing these policies.

From Statistics Canada:

September 16, 2010
University tuition fees, 2010/2011
Canadian full-time students in undergraduate programs this fall paid 4.0% more on average in tuition fees for the 2010/2011 academic year than they a year earlier. This increase is slightly higher than the one for 2009/2010, when tuition fees rose 3.6%.
- incl. four tables:
* Average undergraduate tuition fees for Canadian full-time students, by province
* Average graduate tuition fees for Canadian full-time students, by province
* Average undergraduate tuition fees for Canadian full-time students, by discipline
* Average graduate tuition fees for Canadian full-time students, by discipline

Related subjects:

* Education, training and learning
* Education finance

July 14, 2010
University enrolment, 2008/2009
Just over 1,112,300 students were enrolled in Canadian universities during the academic year 2008/2009, up 3.7% from the previous year.
- includes three tables:
* University enrolment by registration status, program level and gender
* University enrolment by field of study and gender
* University enrolment by province and registration status

Related subjects
o Education, training and learning
o Fields of study
o Outcomes of education
o Educational attainment
o Students

July 14, 2010
University degrees, diplomas and certificates awarded, 2008
In 2008, 244,380 students received a degree, a diploma or a certificate from a Canadian university, up 0.7% from 2007. The increase was entirely due to the attribution of university status to five colleges in British Columbia. If there had been no changes in the number of universities surveyed between 2007 and 2008, the number of graduates would have decreased by 2.5%. In 2008, 60% of qualifications, or 146,721, were awarded to women. Women were awarded 56.4% of the qualifications in 1992.

Recovering Together?
Fiscal Pressures, Federalism and Social Policy
Queen's International Institute on Social Policy 2010
August 16-18, 2010
Queen's University, Kingston (ON)
...
Canada went through a major fiscal crunch in the 1990s and intergovernmental relations were severely strained by the experience. Tensions were generated between the federal and provincial governments, and between provincial and municipal governments. We need to avoid a repeat of those experiences this time.
QIISP 2010 is designed to learn the lessons from our recent past and anticipate the challenges we will confront over the next five years. Hence our question: How do we recover together?

Click the link above to access links to register and to book accommodation in Kingston;
scroll down the page to see the program for this event.

Registration is $300 for participants from NGOs, $600 for all others.

Topics include:
* Multilevel Incidence of Fiscal Pressures in OECD countries
* Federalism and Income Support
* Federalism and Health Care
* Federalism and Investing in Human Capital
* Federalism, Immigrants and Immigrant Integration
* Federalism and Aboriginal Peoples
* The Politics of Recovering Together

Session chairs and speakers include Giles Gherson, Don Drummond, Pierre Fortin,
Michael Mendelson, André Juneau, Tom Courchene and Chantal Hebert, to name but a few.
For the complete list, click the Recovering Together link above and scroll down the page.

Source:
Queen's University School of Policy Studies

[ Earlier conferences in the
Queen's International Institute on Social Policy series - back to 1999, includes links to dozens of presentations, recommended reading!! ]

All Students Should Benefit from Innovation
June 17, 2010
By Nick Falvo
Stephen Harper’s minority government has been making much of its “innovation strategy” in recent months, especially in regard to how it plays out in post-secondary institutions. In this year’s federal budget, for example, the government boasted that “Canada’s investment in higher-education R&D as a proportion of the economy is the highest among G7 countries.” In theory, we should all be able to benefit from innovation. But judging from the way this strategy has been carried out across Canada’s universities in recent years, it is clear that it has created winners and losers. To be sure, some students have received top dollar to help further the government’s agenda on this front, but university students in general are graduating with considerably more student debt than when this strategy was first put in place.
Source:
Academic Matters
Academic Matters explores issues of relevance to higher education in Ontario, other provinces in Canada, and globally.

This series of five commentaries on post-secondary education derives from an in-depth study entitled Student Aid Meets Social Assistance (PDF - K, 72 pages) published by the Caledon Institute in September 2009. Each commentary deals with a core theme linked to easing access to post-secondary education for low-income students, including welfare recipients.
Sherri Torjman prepared all four reports, and each report is a small PDF file two or three pages in length dated March 2010.

* The Power of Post-Secondary Education
* Le pouvoir de l’éducation postsecondaire
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* Barriers to Post-Secondary Education
* Obstacles aux études postsecondaire
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* Welfare Rules and Post-Secondary Education
* Les règles de l’aide sociale et l’éducation postsecondaire
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* Welfare Routes to Post-Secondary Education
* Les divers parcours de l’aide sociale à l’éducation postsecondaire
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* Proposed Reforms to Post-Secondary Education
* Réformes proposes en matière l’éducation postsecondaire

Related link:

Student Aid Meets Social Assistance (PDF - 278K, 77 pages)
By Sherri Torjman
September 2009
This study explores the interaction between student aid and social assistance - the two main systems in Canada that provide financial support to post-secondary students. Both systems are complex in themselves because they are governed by a wide range of rules and regulations. Their complexity is exacerbated by the constitutional nature of Canada . This paper focuses on the interface issues because of an overriding concern: Students from low-income households are under-represented in the post-secondary educational system - particularly at the university level. They face multiple barriers, including information and motivational factors, to participation. Another major problem, not surprisingly, is their limited income and assets relative to the cost of post-secondary education.
Source:
Caledon Institute of Social Policy
The Caledon Institute of Social Policy does rigorous, high-quality research and analysis; seeks to inform and influence public opinion and to foster public discussion on poverty and social policy; and develops and promotes concrete, practicable proposals for the reform of social programs at all levels of government and of social benefits provided by employers and the voluntary sector.

Social Science Research: Dark Age Ahead?
The importance of social science research
to Canada's innovation and competitiveness
E-dialogue (online panel discussion)
February 2nd (2010)
Social science research is seriously underfunded in this country. Listen in as researchers across the country engage in a critical real-time discussion on the contributions the social sciences have made and are making in Canada.

Moderator:
Dr. Ann Dale, Canada Research Chair on Sustainable Community Development, Royal Roads University

Panelists:
* Caroline Andrew, former Dean of Social Sciences, Professor, School of Political Studies and Director of the Centre for Governance, University of Ottawa
* Chad Gaffield, President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
* Noreen Golfman, Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies, Memorial University and President, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
* Professor John Robinson, Member of the International Panel on Climate Change, University of British Columbia
* Giselle Yasmeen, Vice-President of Partnerships, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
[ Biographical notes on all panelists (scroll down the page for bio notes) ]

Source:
E-dialogues for sustainable development
[ Community Research Connections ]
[ Royal Roads University - Victoria, British Columbia ]

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Related links from
GlobeCampus.ca
(A Globe and Mail feature):

Do social sciences get enough funding?
(Online discussion transcript)
May 27, 2009
Scholars say science research is getting a disproportionate amount of government money, in the mistaken view that innovation is restricted to that area.

Social scientists to press Ottawa for more funding
By Elizabeth Church
May 25, 2009
Social scientists and humanities scholars are feeling stung by the federal government's policies on research, and the tendency to equate innovation with science alone.

Selected content from
The Daily [Statistics Canada]:

January 29, 2010
Study: The financial impact of student loans
As tuition fees have risen, more students have relied on student loans to help finance their postsecondary education and debt loads have gone up. This situation in turn has had an impact on individual students' financial positions after graduation. This study, based on data from three different surveys, found that well over one-half (57%) of the graduating class of 2005 had student loans, up from 49% 10 years earlier. Average student debt on graduation rose from $15,200 to $18,800 during the same decade. Also, the proportion of borrowers who graduated with debt loads of at least $25,000 increased to 27% in 2005 from 17% in 1995.

The financial impact of student loans
* Highlights
* Full article:
HTML
PDF (220K, 14 pages)

Source:
January 2010 issue of
Perspectives on Labour and Income

Related subjects:
* Education, training and learning
* Fields of study
* Outcomes of education
* Income, pensions, spending and wealth
* Household assets, debts and wealth
* Household, family and personal income
* Labour
* Employment and unemployment
* Students

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July 13, 2009
University enrolment, 2007/2008
Just over 1,066,000 students were enrolled in Canadian universities during the academic year 2007/2008, up 0.6% from the previous academic year. This is a much slower rate of growth than the annual average increase of 2.9% since 1998/1999.
- includes three tables:
* University enrolment by registration status, program level and gender
* University enrolment by field of study and gender
* University enrolment by province and registration status

Related subjects
o Education, training and learning
o Fields of study
o Outcomes of education
o Students

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July 13, 2009
University degrees, diplomas and certificates awarded, 2007
About 241,600 students received a degree, diploma or certificate qualification from a Canadian university in 2007, a 6.9% increase from 2006. Over 80% of the increase occurred in Ontario. Nearly 61% of qualifications, or 146,700, were awarded to women, continuing a long-term trend in which female graduates outnumber their male counterparts and their proportion continues to increase.
- includes two tables:
* University qualifications awarded by program level and gender
* University qualifications awarded by field of study and gender

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April 22, 2009
National Graduates Survey, 2007
More than 80% of college and university students who graduated in 2005 and did not pursue further studies had found full-time employment by 2007. In general, earnings increased by level of study. In 2007, two years after graduation, just over one-quarter of those who owed student debt at the time they graduated had paid it off.
[ Graduating in Canada:
Profile, Labour Market Outcomes and Student Debt of the Class of 2005 ]

February 12, 2009
Study: Persistence in postsecondary education in Atlantic Canada, 2001/2002 to 2004/2005
Not all postsecondary students in Atlantic Canada remained at the same university or college until they graduated. Many of these students moved between institutions, and many others appeared to have temporarily suspended their postsecondary education for short periods.

Moving Through, Moving On: Persistence
in Postsecondary Education in Atlantic
Canada, Evidence from the PSIS
Executive summary (HTML)
Complete report (PDF - 604K, 91 pages)
By Ross Finnie and Theresa Qiu
February 2009
This report provides new and unique empirical evidence on Postsecondary Education (PSE) pathways in Atlantic Canada based on the Postsecondary Student Information System (“PSIS”).

Recent release from the
Social Research and Demonstration Corporation:

Students from lower-income families more likely to seek
post-secondary education as a result of new innovative programming
News Release
November 30, 2009
SRDC released a report which shows that offering career education and an early guarantee of financial aid to high school students can have significant impacts on their interest in post-secondary studies. The Future to Discover Interim Impacts Report provides the latest update on a project positioned to help Canada tackle two policy challenges it faces in the near future. These are the joint challenges of providing optimal futures to its less-advantaged youth, while overcoming a predicted shortage of skilled workers.

Complete report:

Future to Discover:
Interim Impacts Report (PDF - 4.5MB, 180 pages)
November 2009

Executive summary (1.4MB, 22 pages)
Future to Discover is a pilot project testing the effectiveness of two interventions designed to help students overcome certain barriers to post-secondary education, namely lack of career clarity, misinformation about post-secondary education, and lack of financial resources. This report presents interim impacts of the project, which has involved 5,429 students at 51 high schools in Manitoba and New Brunswick since 2004.

More about Future to Discover

Source:
Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) is a non-profit research organization, with offices in Ottawa and Vancouver, created specifically to develop, field test, and rigorously evaluate social programs. SRDC’s two-part mission is to help policy-makers and practitioners identify policies and programs that improve the well-being of all Canadians, with a special concern for the effects on the disadvantaged, and to raise the standards of evidence that are used in assessing policies.

Spending on students makes sense
Nick Falvo, vice-president of the Graduate Students’ Association,
says Drop Fees campaign crucial to ensuring education for all
By Nick Falvo, Vice-president (academic) of the Graduate Students’ Association
November 7, 2009
Students from across Ontario took to the streets Nov. 5 to fight for a fairer deal for post-secondary education. This is a struggle that students must fight to win, as decreasing government funding, rising tuition fees and a slumping economy continue to place university education out of reach for a growing number of Canadians. (...) Over the past several decades, senior levels of government in Canada have decreased funding for post-secondary education. Indeed, government grants as a share of university operating revenue in Canada decreased from 80 per cent to less than 57 per cent between 1986 and 2006. As a result, the share of university operating budgets funded by tuition fees has more than doubled during the same period (increasing from 14 to 29 per cent). To be sure, tuition has been rising at the same time that the economy has nosedived. This year, roughly 80 per cent of post-secondary students in Canada said they plan to work while in school. And 70 per cent of high school graduates who do not pursue post-secondary education cite financial reasons as the main factor.
Source:
The Charlatan - Carleton University's newspaper since 1945
[ Carleton University ]

Related link:

DROP FEES for a Poverty-Free Ontario
The Drop Fees campaign calls for changes to be made to current government post-secondary education policy that will positively benefit students and the sector in general.

Canadians Want More Effective Government, Better Social Safety Net
News Release
November 3, 2009
Toronto, Ont. - An assessment of national values has revealed that across regions, gender, age and background, Canadians want the same things: to cut bureaucracy, improve the accountability of government and strengthen the social safety net. Released today at a leadership forum in Toronto, the national values assessment was conducted by the Todd Thomas Institute for Values-Based Leadership at Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C. A survey of 1,251 Canadians conducted in May was adjusted to reflect the Canadian census on region, age and gender. (...) While Canadians identified human rights, freedom of speech, law enforcement and quality of life as significant strengths of the current national culture, six of the top 10 identified current values are indicators of dysfunction. They were: bureaucracy, unemployment, crime/violence, wasted resources, corruption, and uncertainty about the future. These were identified across all regions, generations, gender, from the public and private sectors and among Canadian-born and foreign-born respondents.

Summary Report on the
National Values Assessment for Canada, 2009 (PDF - 2.8MB, 19 pages)
October 2009
A National Values Assessment for Canada recently revealed remarkable agreement across diverse subgroups — region, generation, gender, birthplace in and out of Canada, and broad occupational sectors — about top 10 personal values, values reflected in the current culture, and those desired in a culture of Canada into the future. The survey was conducted May 1-7, 2009 by the Todd Thomas Institute for Values-Based Leadership at Royal Roads University in partnership with the Barrett Values Centre headquartered in the UK and the US. Canada is the seventh nation to have implemented a survey using Richard Barrett’s National Values Assessment instrument.
Source:
Todd Thomas Institute for Values-Based Leadership
[ Royal Roads University - Victoria BC ]

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NOTE: To avoid duplication of links, you'll find all
education-related studies from Statistics Canada
ONLY on the Education Links page of this site:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/education.htm

Queen's University School of Policy Studies

Social Policy and the Recession:
A passive or transformative response?
Conference - Queen's University (Kingston)
August 17-19, 2009
Queen's International Institute on Social Policy (QIISP)
"(...) QIISP 2009 focuses on the impact of the recession on our social programs. The program explores the international and domestic contours of the recession, asking how deep and long it is likely to be. The program then examines its general impact on the “welfare diamond,” examining pressures on the roles of the market, the family, governments and the voluntary sector. It also analyzes in greater depth the implications for vulnerable populations: unemployed adult workers, immigrants, youth and pensioners. The final session takes stock, asking how well we are responding, whether we are paralyzed by the intense economic pressure or whether we are adapting and improving our programs for the future."

Program (PDF - 591K, 16 pages)
- includes the complete program PLUS biographical notes for all speakers and presenters.

Themes and speakers/presenters:
(See the program for session chairs and moderators)

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Introduction: The Economic Recession and Social Policy
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David Dodge [ Speaker's notes (PDF 357K, 17 pages) ] - Chancellor, Queen's University and former Governor of the Bank of Canada
Monika Queisser [ Presentation PDF - 685K, 19 pages) ]- Acting Head, Social Policy, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France

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Shifting Roles in Tough Times: Markets, government, community and family
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Jane Jenson [ Presentation (PDF - 50K, 8 pages) ] - [Video] - Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance, University of Montreal
Dan Vale [ Presentation (PDF - 1.9MB, 33 pages)] - [Video] - Programme Manager, The Young Foundation, United Kingdom

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Responding to the Adult Unemployed: Active labour market policies
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Kevin Hollenbeck [ Presentation (PDF - 103K, 35 pages) ] - Vice President and Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, USA
Craig Riddell [ Presentation (PDF - 157K, 38 pages) ] - Royal Bank Faculty Research Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

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Responding to the Adult Unemployed: Income support
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Peter Whiteford [ Presentation PDF - 437K, 26 pages) ] - Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia
Michael Mendelson [ Presentation (PDF - 229K, 25 pages) ] - Senior Scholar, Caledon Institute of Social Policy

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The Recession’s Impact on the Mental Health of Workers: A Global Perspective
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Louise Bradley [no link] - Chief Operating Officer, Mental Health Commission of Canada

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Responding to Vulnerable Populations: Immigrants, youth and aboriginals
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Robert McPhee [ Presentation (PDF - 95K, 27 pages) ] - McPhee Economic Consulting
Naomi Alboim [ Presentation (PDF - 58K, 12 pages) ] - Fellow, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University

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Responding to Vulnerable Populations: Pensioners
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Garry Barrett [ Presentation (PDF - 398K, 32 pages) ] - Professor, Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia
Keith Ambachtsheer [ Presentation (PDF - 368K, 6 pages) ] - Director, International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM), Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

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How Are We Doing? Is the recession paralyzing or transformative?
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Armine Yalnizyan [ Presentation (PDF - 208K, 27 pages) ] - Senior Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
Don Drummond [ Speaker's Notes (PDF - 513K, 12 pages) ] - Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group

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Links to previous QIISP events - contains links to all presentations back to 2003 (dozens and dozens of presentations!)

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Also from Queen's University:

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Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
The Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University is Canada's premier university-based centre for research on all aspects of federalism and intergovernmental relations, both in Canada and in countries around the world.
1. The IIGR launched a 2009 working paper series on the Federal Dimensions of Reform of the Supreme Court of Canada.
2. The Institute is proud to announce that all IIGR publications since 1976 have now been made freely available in PDF format in the Publications Archive.

Publications Archive
* Aboriginal Peoples and Constitutional Reform Series
* Annual Reports
* Bibliographies
* Books
* Chronologies
* Dean's Conference on Law and Policy
* Discussion Papers
* Reflection Papers
* Research Papers
* Social Union Series
* State of the Federation Series
* more...

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The Olivia Framework Concepts for Use in
Finely- Grained, Integrated Social Policy Analysis (PDF - 474K, 41 pages)
November 2008
By Peter Hicks
Working Paper #45
[Friendly warning : Economists, life-course policy analysts and MPA students will no doubt tremble with excitement as they pore through these 41 pages dealing with a set of standard concepts that they can use in describing and assessing the many dimensions of human resources and social development policies. If you don't speak Policy-Wonkese, though, you may find it a bit of a challenging read. And Olivia is not Newton-John, but rather a fictitious individual, a case study developed to assist in the analysis of social and labour market conditions and policies and their impacts on people.]

Social Policy in Canada - Looking Back, Looking Ahead (PDF - 233K, 40 pages)
Peter Hicks
November 2008
Abstract: This paper discusses recent policy trends, the changing role of the various actors in the system, international comparisons and a range of other social policy topics. The paper does this by examining the author’s thoughts on trends and future directions as they were set out in a paper written in 1994. It then fast forwards to 2008 and examines what actually happened in the intervening years, pointing out areas where earlier forecasts were reasonably accurate and, where they were not, the reasons for this. The immediate purpose of the paper is to examine the reasons why social policy analysts need to look into the future, and to explore ways of managing the inevitably large risks associated with such future-looking exercises. The underlying purpose, however, is simply to introduce a range of important Canadian social policy topic to students and others who are interested in social policy, but without much previous background in the area.

Recommended reading!
- includes a senior federal government insider's view of the tumultuous period of the mid-1990s, notably the Social Security Review of 1994. As an insider myself during that decade (if only on the social program information side of the Department where author Peter Hicks was an Assistant Deputy Minister), I found this paper quite interesting and enlightening, notably in its retrospective look at social policy in Canada in the mid-1990s and thirteen years later, in 2008.

Source:
Queen's University School of Policy Studies

Canadian Education Association (CEA)
The Canadian Education Association (CEA) is a cross-Canada network with a strong membership base of leaders in the education, research and policy, not for profit and business sectors. We are committed to education that leads to greater student engagement; teaching that inspires students and teachers and that causes all students to learn; and schools that ensure both equity and excellence in pursuit of the optimal development of all students.
- incl. links to : * About Us * Video * Blog * Bulletin * Awards * Events * Education Canada * Transforming Education * Programs & Initiatives * Research & Publications * Get Involved

Freezing fees is not the answer : Putting a brake on fees doesn't help more low-income students
get into school and merely starves universities of resources, Sean Junor argues
October 16, 2007
Over the past four years our federal and provincial governments have increased spending on student loans, grants and education-related tax credits by more than $1.4-billion, boosting the total to a record $5.7-billion. Most of the new money is intended to reduce costs for students — by freezing tuition fees, for instance — and entice recent graduates to reside in their jurisdictions through graduate tax credits. Governments seem to prefer providing benefits to people already engaged in post-secondary education rather than assisting those most in need. In British Columbia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, every dollar of new money has been invested in universal student-support measures instead of need-based ones. In some of the cases, lower-income students are actually worse off. The so-called "welfare wall" is not easy to navigate around.
Source:
The Globe and Mail

Social Policy in Canada
September 2002
Ernie Lightman (University of Toronto)
Social Policy in Canada is a "core text for upper-level undergraduate courses on Canadian social policy in social work and sociology departments. Also check for courses in economics, political science, public administration, and health administration departments. [This textbook] provides and important and timely examination of the past, present, and future of Canadian social policy. In particular, Lightman looks closely at how social benefits are allocated, and explains in detail the mechanisms and tools of income transfer and redistribution that are central to all aspects of social policy. What makes the book unique is its central organizing premise: not merely that social policy should be understood in juxtaposition to economic policy, but that economic policy is in fact a subset of social policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of key issues in the realm of social policy that highlights commonalities and differences in such pivotal areas as privatization, user fees, and universality."
- I don't generally include links to products that cost money, but I'll definitely make an exception for the work of Ernie Lightman.
(And besides, he promised me a beer...)
$ 32.95 CDN from Oxford University Press Canada.
Use the link above to order...

Centre for Research on Community Services
(part of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Social Sciences)
"The mission of the Centre for Research on Community Services (CRCS) is to conduct research and provide training that will contribute to the development of effective health and social services for vulnerable populations living in the community."
- incl. links to : About the Centre - What's New? - Personnel - Research Projects - Conferences and workshops - Online Publications - Newsletters - Internet Links
Faculty of Social Sciences
[ University of Ottawa ]

Social Policy Research Unit (SPR) (Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina)
Established in 1972, the unit receives funding from the University and through various research contracts and grants. SPR conducts critical analytic research to promote social justice and enhance individual, family and community development.
- incl. links to: About SPR - What's New - Research Associates - Research Projects - Research Resources - Events - Publications

Related Links - dozens of links to various community-based, non-profit organizations, research and academic institutes and government departments.

Online Publications
Here are a few sample reports:

Social Policy as a Determinant of Health and Well-Being:
Lessons from Québec on the Contribution of the Social Economy (PDF file - 260K, 26 pages)
Yves Vaillancourt, François Aubry, Louise Tremblay and Muriel Kearney (Université du Québec à Montréal),
and Luc Thériault (University of Regina)
September 2003

Current Issues Surrounding Poverty and Welfare Programming in Canada : Two Reviews (PDF file - 371K, 43 pages)
("Race to the Bottom: Welfare to Work Programming in Saskatchewan and its Similarities to Programming in the United States and Britain")
By Garson Hunter, Ph.D & Dionne Miazdyck, Research Assistant
August 2003
- interesting comparison of recent welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, Canada, the U.S. and Britain
- includes a ten-page article entitled Low Income Cut-Offs (LICO) and Poverty Measurement (LICO, Market Basket Measure, etc.)
TIP===> the appendix to this report (pp 27-31) presents a detailed comparison of the main features of the Saskatchewan Assistance Plan (the old Saskatchewan welfare program) and the new Transitional Employment Allowance.

12th Biennial Canadian Social Welfare Policy Conference:
Forging Social Futures: Canadian and International Perspectives
A joint initiative of the University of New Brunswick and the Canadian Council on Social Development
June 16-18, 2005
Fredericton, New Brunswick
"This is an opportunity for scholars, analysts, policy makers and activists to share ideas about building equitable communities. The bilingual forum is a diverse mix of the practical and the theoretical. It will highlight what works, what doesn't work and what could work. Participants will come away with new information and ideas about how theories can be turned into responsive policies and programs. The conference will feature a mixture of keynotes, plenaries, workshops and roundtables to maximize opportunity for presentation and discussion. Most sessions are to be held at the Wu Conference Centre at the Fredericton campus of the University of New Brunswick in the stimulating context of this bilingual and bicultural province."

General Information - travel to and accommodation in Fredericton
Program - last updated May 25
Registration
Source:
Canadian Council on Social Development
University of New Brunswick

Related Links:

This conference is a biennial event that started in 1982. I've attended every conference in this series except the one in Regina in 1997, and I highly recommend it as a meeting place for academics, "feds"and provincial-territorial government people and NGO folks.

Here are links to two earlier conferences in this series:

11th Canadian Social Welfare Policy Conference - It's Time to Act!
Ottawa
June 15, 16 and 17, 2003
[version française]
Presented by the University of Ottawa and the Canadian Council on Social Development
"This conference brings university and voluntary sector researchers and advocates together with municipal, provincial and federal policymakers to put ideas into action. This year the role of the voluntary sector in policy-making will be highlighted..."
Registration and Accommodation - download, print, complete and fax the registration form
Agenda
- incl. plenary speakers and list of sessions for all three days
- session themes include : Emerging coalitions - First Nations policies - Longitudinal study of families and children - Research on homelessness - Women's organizing in the Ottawa area - Citizen rights - The social inclusion approach - Poverty and spirituality - Population health - Children - Welfare-to-work strategies - Contemporary social services - Evolution of social services - Globalization - Social Development strategies - Transnational context - Economic insecurity - 2003 review of Canada at the Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights -
Policies and Politics of Social Investment - Role of "Spin" in Marketing Public Policy - Community Organizing in the Ottawa-Gatineau Region - Building Effective Partnerships: National Community Research - Child Care - Adolescent sexuality - Homelessness - Neighbourhood social development - Intimate partner violence - Child poverty and social inclusion

Tenth Biennial Conference on Canadian Social Welfare Policy : 
Wealth, Health and Welfare: Tensions and Passions
- [version française]
June 17-20, 2001
University of Calgary

OPIRG.ORG - Ontario Public Interest Research Groups
- includes links to PIRGs at the following Ontario universities : Brock - Carleton - Guelph - Kingston - McMaster - Ottawa - Peterborough - Toronto - Waterloo - Windsor - York

McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
McGill University

Canadian Federation of University Women - Founded in 1919, the Canadian Federation of University Women is a voluntary, nonpartisan, non-profit, self-funded bilingual organization of 10,000 women university graduates. CFUW members are active in public affairs, working to raise the social, economic, and legal status of women, as well as to improve education, the environment, peace, justice and human rights.

Origins of Social Work in Vancouver and at U.B.C.
By Beverley Scott, UBC Social Work Librarian
- short (8 pages if printed) overview of social work on Canada's West Coast, with links to further detailed information
Source:
Subject Resources for Social Work
- includes almost 100 links to articles, associations, societies, lists and newsgroups, websites, reference tools, current awareness, newspaper sources, and more...
Source:
University of British Columbia Library

Also from the UBC Library:

B.C. Government's Core Services Cuts
Links to government and NGO websites with more information on the BC Government cuts and what they mean to children, people with disabilities and other groups whose supports are decreasing or disappearing; as well as reaction from public service unions.

Subject Resources for Political Science/International Relations

Data Liberation Initiative (Wendy Watkins, Carleton U.)

International Social Science Information Gateway (UK)

Related Links:
- See the Education Links page of this site.

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