{"id":1034,"date":"2005-10-25T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T18:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2005-10-25T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T18:42:32","slug":"a-national-dialogue-on-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"A National Dialogue on Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences \/ F\u00c8d\u00c8ration canadienne des sciences humaines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fedcan.ca\/\">Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a> is sponsoring a <a title=\"National Dialogue on Higher Education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visionedu.ca\/\">National Dialogue on Higher Education<\/a> in November in Ottawa.<br \/>\nHow is it a dialogue? They have an online forum and at the conference there will be &#8220;Table Talk&#8221; sessions at meals. There has also been a lot of discussion behind the scenes between the organizations sponsoring this. I can&#8217;t help feeling, however, that some of this is about promoting higher education outside the academy.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA quote from the introduction to the program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More people than ever before are pursuing higher education in our institutions, in the<br \/>\nworkplace, in retirement. The trend has sparked a series of profound public consultations over<br \/>\nthe past five years and inspired significant investments in recent federaland provincial budgets.<br \/>\nThese measures have changed the policy environment and highlighted the need for a truly<br \/>\nnational dialogue on higher education.<br \/>\n\u00ef What do our diverse post-secondary education systems contribute to individuals,<br \/>\ncommunities, provinces and the country? What should they contribute?<br \/>\n\u00ef What are the social and economic benefits of PSE?<br \/>\n\u00ef What can we learn from our different provincial systems?<br \/>\n\u00ef What are the effects of current federal funding arrangements?<br \/>\n\u00ef What choices are needed for Aboriginal, immigrant and lifelong learners and students<br \/>\nfrom every walk of life to access the higher education they want?<br \/>\n\u00ef What can we learn from the experience of other countries?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is sponsoring a National Dialogue on Higher Education in November in Ottawa. How is it a dialogue? They have an online forum and at the conference there will be &#8220;Table Talk&#8221; sessions at meals. There has also been a lot of discussion behind the scenes between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A National Dialogue on Higher Education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}