The province needs to explore what it wants out of its universities as their core as educational institutions are under threat.
At their core, universities are institutions charged with performingThey are a place where degree programs aim to instil subject matter competencies, form critical and creative habits of mind, and teach collaborative and civic engagement skills, while scholars perform a variety of discovery-driven, targeted and public-interest research.
In countries like Denmark, Germany and Poland, where governments provide greater financial support for university students, there is greater emphasis on the social benefits of higher education. We should avoid pitting these conceptions of higher education against one another and ought to respect the many and varied benefits of an inclusive, accessible and robust post-secondary education system.Article content
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