Ensuring Quality and Affordability in Ontario Universities: The Path Best Taken

January 21, 2005

Topics included:

  1. Public concerns about possible directions for higher education in Ontario
  2. Coordination, collaboration and governance of the province’s higher education system
  3. Higher Education Reform in the UK
  4. Funding for the future: public and private responsibilities and benefits
  5. Affordability
  6. Ensuring quality
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Presentation: Ensuring Quality & Affordability in Ontario UniversitiesProfessor Andre Turcotte - School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University and President, Feedback ResearchDownload
Panel 1: Coordination, collaboration and governance of the province’s higher education system: what type of system does Ontario need?Professor Paul Axelrod - Dean of Education, York UniversityDownload
 Professor Michael Skolnik - William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership, OISE, University of TorontoDownload
 Dr. Donald Savage - Donald C. Savage Consulting Co.Download
Presentation: Higher Education Reform in the UK Professor Claire Callender - Professor of Social Policy, South Bank University, London, England Download
Panel 2: Funding for the future: public and private responsibilities and benefitsPaul Kniest - Economist and Policy Researcher, National Tertiary Education Union, Melbourne, AustraliaDownload
 Dr. Michael Bloom - Director, Education and Learning, Conference Board of CanadaDownload
 Hugh Mackenzie - Principal, Mackenzie and AssociatesDownload
Panel 3: Affordability and opportunityProfessor Bruce Johnstone - Professor of Higher and Comparative Education, SUNY BuffaloDownload
 Professor Richard Wellen - Business and Society Program, York UniversityDownload
 Lynn Barr-Telford - Chief, Survey Analysis and Dissemination, Centre for Education Statistics, Statistics CanadaDownload
Panel 4: Ensuring qualityProfessor Richard Van Loon - President, Carleton University, Chair, Council of Ontario UniversitiesDownload
 Dr. Ron Saunders - Canadian Policy Research NetworksDownload
 Ann Dowsett Johnston - Editor, Maclean's Guide to Canadian Universities and Maclean's Guide to Canadian Colleges