What has Canadian education to do with us? Apart from my sisters who
abide in Toronto, the echoes of the education debate resound about the world.
What is agonisingly frustrating is that as a British tax payer, I subsidise every illegal immigrant's education at the expense of the illiterate, innumerate indigenous people.
Education is available and inexpensive in Britain but the system and mentality of the ignorant masses and those idiots who speak for them, makes life easier to wait for the postman to call every second Thursday.
Canadian education awaits a hard lesson, watchdog
warns
As it
prepares to close this spring, the Canadian Council on Learning, a non-profit
that aimed to be Canada’s federal education watchdog, leaves a dark prognosis
for Canadian students. Emerging economies are surging ahead, and Canada’s
ministries of education are ignoring valuable lessons from other countries,
the organization concludes in a final report that will be released Tuesday.
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Paul
Cappon, the council’s outspoken president, says Canada’s disadvantage against
education powerhouses such as China and South Korea boils down to a lack of
federal oversight. “Canada is the only country in the developed world that
has no stated national goals for education,” he said.
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The
federal government cut funding for the council early last year. The
non-profit was established by the Liberals in 2004 with a five-year grant of
$85-million. The organization fought to stay alive, but found fundraising
efforts ate into time for research.
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Canada
is a top-performer, and a fair one. For more than a decade, Canadian students
have outperformed their international peers on the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development’s assessments of reading, math and science. They
placed in the top 10 in every subject in the most recent results.
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