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Here’s reliable evidence validating concerns that literacy levels are dropping significantly in developed countries among those with lower levels of education.
This study goes beyond just basic decoding of words to assess numeracy, data interpretation and critical thinking skills.
Would welcome a gift link to the FT report please to get behind the paywall.
OECD has been testing adult literacy in a rigorous and comparable way since the mid 1990s with TALIS (The Adult Literacy International Survey). Here’s the OECD link to the top line 2023 findings https://gpseducation.oecd.org/IndicatorExplorer?plotter=h5&query=51
Here’s the news release from earlier this month from the Council of Ministers of Education Canada(CMEC) on the OECD release of the broader Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).
The message is that education matters: “adults holding bachelor’s degrees or higher consistently outperforming those with lower levels of education.”
The Chief Science Advisor’s report notes that “with each covid reinfection, the risk of developing PCC is cumulative.” Postsecondary students are particularly vulnerable to repeated COVID-19 infections because of shared living spaces (dorms, student housing) and frontline work (waiting tables and retail jobs, for instance), and transmission can be boosted by extensive mixing due to complex timetables and crowded spaces on campuses.
Six week old article, but pretty sobering in light of a Trump victory
And of course Canadian academia is so interconnected with US academia
https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/project-2025-and-higher-education
www.nea.orgProject 2025 and Higher Education | NEAA plan to limit what can be taught and learned, and torch student loan, repayment, and forgiveness options.
I honestly hate these immigration restrictions in the first place, but now that they are in place this does seem like the "worst of both worlds" as the author asserts.
"In other words, Conestoga College was granted three times as many spaces for international students as the University of Toronto, Canada’s top-ranked university. This was also roughly 20 times as many as leading research institutions, such as Western and Queen’s."
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2024/international-students-permits-problems/
Policy OptionsChanges to permits for international students reward the worst colleges and hurt serious researchersIt’s a failed policy to allot the highest numbers of permits to abusing institutions based on previous enrolment. It’s the worst of all outcomes.
To my #American #colleagues, I am #anxious for your #future. Who knows what will happen to #postsecondary #education under the new #presidential #administration?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UnitedStates #Canada #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
ACRLog - Blogging by and for academic and research librarians · Tired - ACRLogI am so tired of waiting.Aren’t you,For the world to become goodAnd beautiful and kind?Let us take a knife And cut the world in two—And see what worms are eatingAt the rind.Langston Hughes, "Tired" To my American colleagues, I am anxious for your future. Who knows what will happen to post-secondary education under the new
I am also willing to go on record that workday sucks in a #postsecondary environment. 
#UBC
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/06/01/vancouver-ubc-registration-system-change/
CityNews Vancouver · Former UBC IT employee criticizes move to new course registration systemA former UBC IT employee is speaking up after the university recently switched to a new course registration system.
The framing of food in Canadian university classrooms
A preliminary analysis of undergraduate human nutrition sciences, dietetics, and food studies syllabi
Andrea Bombak
Michelle Adams
Sierra Garofalo
Constance Russell
Emma Robinson
Barbara Parker
Natalie Riediger
Erin Cameron
#FoodPositivity #Education #PostSecondary #FoodStudies #NutritionEducation #Canada #DiscourseAnalysis
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/659
canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca
The framing of food in Canadian university classrooms: A preliminary analysis of undergraduate human nutrition sciences, dietetics, and food studies syllabi
| Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems
Alberta’s Bill 18 is another strategy from Quebec’s playbook
#Alberta #Quebec #Canada #Bill18 #Autonomy #Politics #Cities #Health #PostSecondary #FederalTensions #CanadianPolitics
https://the-14.com/albertas-bill-18-is-another-strategy-from-quebecs-playbook/
The BC Finance Minister says she "will not cut services”, but they are. Unless you don't consider Post Secondary Education a “service". My University has and will be laying off multiple professors, staff and others and closing entire programs.
All because our government funding has not increased in line with costs for years and decades.
(even while tuitions are higher than ever and students are struggling to make ends meet and attend classes)
ugh. Bad news piled onto bad news today educationally.... thank you neo-liberal, capitalist extremist, anti-intellectual, hellscape.