{"id":864,"date":"2005-04-13T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T23:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=864"},"modified":"2005-04-13T19:27:01","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T23:27:01","slug":"globe-professors-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Globe: Professors Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in yesterday&#8217;s Globe and Mail titled <a title=\"a great many professors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20050412\/ONTUNIV12\/TPNational\/?query=university\">Wanted: a great many professors<\/a> reports on the need for professors in Ontario. The article by Caroline Alphonso (Tuesday, April 12, 2005, Page A12) reports on a <a title=\"New Page 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ocufa.on.ca\/\">OCUFA<\/a> study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocufa.on.ca\/research\/vol6no1.pdf\">Closing the Quality Gap<\/a> which argues for the need for hiring 11,000 faculty by 2010.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ontario&#8217;s universities have the worst student-faculty ratio in the country and unless the provincial government allocates millions of dollars to hire professors, students will receive a second-rate education, warns a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The report released yesterday by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations shows that Ontario&#8217;s universities have an average ratio of 24 students to each professor, well above the Canadian average ratio of 18 to 1.<\/p>\n<p>With a large number of professors retiring and more students enrolling in universities, the student-faculty gap is about to get worse, the report says. Class sizes of more than 100 first-year students are not uncommon. Some schools have classes of more than 500 students, making it impossible for students to interact with their professors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in yesterday&#8217;s Globe and Mail titled Wanted: a great many professors reports on the need for professors in Ontario. The article by Caroline Alphonso (Tuesday, April 12, 2005, Page A12) reports on a OCUFA study, Closing the Quality Gap which argues for the need for hiring 11,000 faculty by 2010.<\/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-864","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\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}