Creso Sá is the vice-dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He is also the editor of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education.
Creso Sá is the vice-dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He is also the editor of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education.
COVID-19 has caused the academic community to be very reactionary, but research is fundamentally a long-term process.
Major crises provide windows of opportunity for change.
Despite a widespread media narrative claiming students would be flocking to Canada, universities did not see a “Trump bump.”
The Liberals claim that “science is at the centre of everything the government does” – yet all we have seen and heard are symbolic gestures and feel-good rhetoric.
Clusters are often described as prioritizing interdisciplinary collaboration, but that comes with its own unique set of challenges.
The poor rate of innovation among Canadian firms relates to factors well beyond the scope of research partnerships.
In the long run, the status of the report as a relevant source for policy debate and advocacy hinges on which party wins the October federal election.
A new panel created in the 2019 Ontario budget will have the mundane task of clarifying the relationship between science and innovation.
The way HEQCO chose to communicate the results of its recent Skills Assessment Pilot Studies is a perfect example of cargo cult policy research.
With a federal election looming later this year, here are a few suggestions to bolster science, skills and innovation.
They might have been able to better back their initial position by problem solving with the budding francophone university in face of budget constraints.