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Pain by Numbers: The distributional impacts of federal funding for post-secondary education
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2016
Community Watch? Surveillance, safety and control in Canadian Education This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves explores not only surveillance, but the ways in which control…
UNSPUN: Childcare and the Manitoba Election
Childcare is a surprisingly important election issue. It figured prominently in the 2015 federal election, and is playing a role in the 2016 Manitoba provincial…
UNSPUN: Ask them about Manitoba’s Poorly Housed
What are provincial politicians going to do about poorly housed Manitobans? One third of Manitoba renters live in core housing need, meaning they spend over…
UNSPUN: Student Issues are Election Issues
Lazy, entitled, apathetic, disengaged, these are just some of the words that are used to mis-categorize and label post-secondary students. The reality of the average…
UNSPUN: Communities leading the way need provincial support
The province has invested widely in community development and “place-based” approaches to renewal and poverty reduction, with many positive results. Place-based approaches such as these…
UNSPUN: Accessible and in the Public Interest? Manitoba’s University System
Manitobans recognize that universities play a variety of important social roles, well beyond preparing people for successful careers. University research plays a foundational role in…
Eliminating Tuition and Compulsory Fees for Post-Secondary Education
Download 134.02 KB7 pages In today’s rapidly changing economy, a truly affordable and accessible post-secondary education system needs to be a top priority. The current…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2016
Oral History Education, Political Engagement, and Youth The Winter 2016 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves offers a thoughtful and multifaceted collection on the subject of…
Underinvesting in Our Future
Revenues and Expenditures of Saskatchewan School Boards from 2004 to 2014 Download 622.11 KB12 pages Despite taking in record amounts of revenue during the economic…
The Next Step
Literacy Programming in Manitoba Download 342.69 KB20 pages Economists have estimated that low literacy levels cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars annually (Gulati 2013;…
Fast Facts: No Jesuit School in Winnipeg’s North End
The Catholic Church ran more than half of Canada’s residential schools. In these schools they immersed Indigenous children and youth in Catholic culture. The effect…
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