Post-secondary education / en 茄子直播 has flagship role in Ontario post-secondary education, says provincial report /news/heqco-report <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">茄子直播 has flagship role in Ontario post-secondary education, says provincial report</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/convocation-1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=Oncet9Jc 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/convocation-1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=NfFTeuhd 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/convocation-1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=s6GQK93r 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/convocation-1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=Oncet9Jc" alt="Graduates at Convocation 2016: A top-tier university like 茄子直播 reflects well on the entire system, says the HEQCO report (Ken Jones photo)"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lavende4</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-07-12T10:20:37-04:00" title="Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - 10:20" class="datetime">Tue, 07/12/2016 - 10:20</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/post-secondary-education" hreflang="en">Post-secondary education</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/ontario" hreflang="en">Ontario</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/university-toronto" hreflang="en">University of Toronto</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/meric-gertler" hreflang="en">Meric Gertler</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/heqco" hreflang="en">HEQCO</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The University of Toronto has a 鈥減owerful flagship role鈥 to play as Ontario鈥檚 one internationally ranked top-tier university, says a new report by the provincial agency dedicated to improving the quality of higher education.</p> <p>The new report by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario takes stock of provincial efforts to establish clear distinctions among the province鈥檚 20 universities and recommends further action to differentiate the research and teaching efforts of individual schools.</p> <p>The Ontario government has made differentiation a key policy, negotiating strategic mandate agreements in 2014 with institutions that ask them to identify factors that make them unique in the system.</p> <p>The new report urges the Ontario government to 鈥渕ove strongly and boldly鈥 to encourage greater differences among schools, and singles out 茄子直播 as an important resource for the whole province. Having a top-tier university, 鈥渞eflects well on the entire system and, like a rising tide, lifts all boats,鈥 the report finds.</p> <h2><a href="http://www.heqco.ca/en-ca/Research/ResPub/Pages/The-Differentiation-of-the-Ontario-University-System-Where-are-we-now-and-where-should-we-go.aspx">Read the HEQCO report here</a></h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>茄子直播 president <strong>Meric Gertler</strong> welcomed the report鈥檚 findings.</p> <p>鈥淭his analysis confirms 茄子直播鈥檚 flagship position within the Ontario system, as an institution of research and teaching that is recognized around the world,鈥 he said.&nbsp; 鈥淲e need to do all we can to attract the best minds to our campuses, to provide the best learning environment to our students and give them the kinds of opportunities that prepare them well for lifelong success.&nbsp;This report acknowledges that a one-size-fits-all funding model makes it increasingly difficult for us to deliver on this commitment.鈥</p> <p>The report recommends 鈥渟eizing the opportunity to restructure funding and enrolment expectations to ensure that Toronto continues to be able to play its unique and powerful flagship role for Ontario.鈥</p> <p>In addition to 茄子直播, the report singles out six other 鈥渞esearch-intensive鈥 universities, and groups four others as 鈥渋n-between鈥 or regional institutions. Nine others it describes as 鈥渕ostly undergraduate鈥 institutions that emphasize teaching and learning.</p> <p>It concludes that 鈥渢he most promising strategy is to concentrate research resources 鈥 infrastructure, sponsored funding and graduate education 鈥 into the already more research-intensive universities that attract the greatest student demand.鈥</p> <p>The new report also looks at differences in the 鈥渢eaching mission鈥 of individual universities using measures such as equity of access, graduate outcomes and demand. It concludes that schools that serve student bodies with more complex needs should get the support needed to meet that demand.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淚n a differentiated system, institutions build on their areas of expertise, allowing each to make its optimal contribution,鈥 HEQCO president and CEO Harvey Weingarten said in a statement. 鈥淥ntario has the opportunity to show international leadership in building a postsecondary system that is more cohesive, more sustainable and of higher quality.鈥</p> <p>&nbsp;The report cautions that the distinctions it makes are not a form of ranking. 鈥淒ifferentiation describes how institutions are different, not which are better,鈥 it states. &nbsp;</p> <p>In a time of budget restraint, the report sees differentiation as a way to increase choice, leverage institutional strengths and avoid expensive duplication. 鈥淒ifferentiation is a strategy for spending existing resources with greater impact and better outcomes,鈥 it states.&nbsp; At the same time, it is critical of the provincial funding formula that is based on per student funding and as such only rewards enrolment growth.</p> <p>Such a standardized approach is the 鈥渃onventional default in public-sector funding schemes,鈥 because it is easy to administer and easy to defend as fair, but 鈥渋s not a particularly powerful approach to driving differentiation,鈥 it finds.</p> <p>The report, 鈥楾he Differentiation of the Ontario University System: Where are we now and where should we go?鈥 was written by Martin Hicks and Linda Jonker and builds on the research done by HEQCO on this topic over the past six years.&nbsp;HEQCO was created by the Ontario government more than a decade ago to conduct research, evaluate the postsecondary education system and provide policy recommendations to the province.&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:20:37 +0000 lavende4 14644 at