During recent years, the increasing public demand for community college programs which lead to immediate employment has created something of an "identity crisis "for college faculty in British Columbia. Orginally, the college concept in this province reflected a comprehensive curriculum…

Growth of doctoral studies at Canadian universities in the last two decades has resulted in the more than 1,000 programs that are now offered. Not surprisingly, the output of Ph.D. graduates has increased 6 fold since the early sixties. But…

Under conditions of limited and selective growth, institutions propose resource allocation changes which are not strictly related to overall institutional enrollment levels. These proposals often focus attention on the resource impact of internal shifts in student demand and the desirability…

Cet article pre´sente tout d'abord l'importance et les objectifs de l'e´tude du de´veloppement vocationnel de l'adulte ainsi que son rapport avec les recherches de´ja` faites et la docu- mentation existante. Les auteurs pre´tendent que la pe´riode adulte (adulthood) a e´te´,…

L'intervention du gouvernement fe´de´ral dans le financement des universite´s que´be´coises a pris diverses formes au cours des anne´es. Ce financement a touche´ aussi bien la formation ge´ne´rale que professionnelle, laformation proprement scolaire aussi bien que les activite´s para-scolaires, la recherche…

L'Universite´ de Montre´al, a` l'instar d'autres institutions, a implante´ au de´but des anne´es '70 une politique d'ouverture disciplinaire. Elle correspondait aux yeux des responsables, a` la solution ade´quate de certains proble`mes socio-e´conomiques: ne´cessite´ de re´pondre a` des contraintes d'ordre financier,…

Le concept d'e´ducation permanente suppose la mise en place d'un syste`me e´ducatif entie`re- ment nouveau. Pour les universite´s, cela entrai^ne une transformation profonde, de´ja` amorce´e par l'e´ducation des adultes; aussi apparai^t-il normal que celle-ci soit utilise´e comme strate´gie d'implantation de…

Direct funding to users, or student-choice programs, are usually referred to as 'voucher schemes' in the literature. The literature, however, has little to say about vouchers in the context of post-secondary education. A voucher scheme at the elementary or secondary…

After a brief general consideration of the census, state-formation and moral regulation, together with the use and abuse of this form of 'numbering the people', two major illustrative examples are provided which expose the problematic nature of seemingly objective censal…

Part-time university undergraduate students participation in the Canadian postsecondary education system has grown substantially over the past several decades. This growth raises questions concerning thefactors influencing students' decisions to enrol full or part-time. The research presented here is based on…