(originally posted at PoliticsRespun.org – see here) The recent controversy over the Vancouver School Board’s budget situation has been a bit of an interesting story to follow. Much like every other school board in the province, the VSB has been wrangling with a considerable problem: the costs of providing a high-quality public education continuously increase, [...]
Posts tagged education
“Do not simply, passively, only just think of the world. Change it too.”
Friends, Many people have asked me to share the text of my remarks to convocation today. You’ll find them below. But first – I really, truly, and strongly believe that all of our experiences from our adventures at university have been influenced by the people that we’ve been lucky to go through them with. All [...]
guelph action / activism elsewhere
So, a bit of a break from my roughly 20k-words worth of papers is due, in my estimation. I’ve come across some evidence of another university going through similar budgetary difficulties as SFU has recently — at the University of Guelph, in Ontario. Apparently, as part of a budgetary review sparked by a “budgetary crisis,” [...]