Higher Education in Canada: Different Systems, Different Perspectives

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Glen A. Jones
Routledge, Jun 25, 2012 - Education - 384 pages
Published in 1997. People wishing to learn the major phases in the development of Canada's twelve postsecondary higher education systems over the 1945-95 period will find this an essential starting point.

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Contents

A Brief Introduction to Higher Education in Canada
1
The Federal Perspective
9
Opportunity and Diversity
31
Postsecondary Education in Alberta Since 1945
59
Higher Education in Saskatchewan
93
Higher Education in Manitoba
115
Higher Education in Ontario
137
19451995
161
Where Past Is More Than Prologue
221
Prince Edward Island
245
More Canadian Than British But Longer Getting There
259
The Last Thirty Years
285
Higher Education in the Northwest Territories
301
Viewing Canadian Higher Education from a Collection of JurisdictionBased Perspectives
325
Contributors
343
Index
349

New Brunswick
189

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Glen A. Jones (Ph.D. Toronto) is an Associate Professor in the Higher Education Group, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Before joining the Higher Education Group in 1995, he was a member of the Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Education, Brock University

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