TORONTO, July 18, 2012 – The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) announces the release of Educated Reform: striving for higher quality education at Ontario universities. The document, released today, presents OUSA’s position on a range of topics related to delivering high quality education within the Ontario post-secondary education sector.
Educated Reform explores strategies that government can employ to improve the quality of education being offered in Ontario universities wit …read more
OUSA announces release of submission regarding quality of education in Ontario post-secondary institutions
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Every year, universities spill a great deal of digital ink over their positions in various international ranking systems. Three ranking systems are regularly featured prominently: The QS World University Rankings, the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education Rankings. The Canadian universities that place in these ranking systems consistently write press releases, news articles and student recruitment materials boasting how the university’s ranking is an indication …read more
The most significant roadblock I’ve encountered in my research on students with disabilities so far has been incomplete data. The vast majority of research that has been conducted with students has been restricted to those who register with their institution’s disability service office. While this certainly accounts for a number of students with disabilities, students with invisible or learning disabilities often don’t access such services, which makes these measurements and headcounts an …read more
In May, OUSA published a submission to the Government of Ontario entitled Student Health: Bringing Healthy Change to Ontario’s Universities. On page six of this document, we wrote the following:
“Students are extremely concerned about the growing trend of offloading the coasts of running university health clinics to students. There are several contentious issues surrounding this trend. First, health clinics often benefit the broader university community: at Carleton University and Western Un …read more
