A Review of Academic Transformation

Reviewed by Elizabeth Church Ontario needs to create new universities with the sole purpose of teaching undergraduates if it hopes to maintain quality and halt the growing use of part-time faculty and large classes, says a new book on education reform. Unlike other large Canadian provinces, Ontario undergraduates are educated almost exclusively at universities that divide their energies between teaching and research. Such a model is unsustainable, say the authors of the book to be released in December 2009. Rising student numbers, especially in the Toronto area, and increasing demands for campuses to produce research that will make the country […]