In this issue, Joe Friesen reports on the conundrum Ontario colleges are in, and Naomi Buck wonders why Canada is among the countries without cellphone restrictions in schools
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In this issue we look ahead to the coming school year with in-depth examination of a couple of education-related hot-button issues: post-secondary institutions’ reliance on international students for revenue and the proliferation of cellphones in grade schools. In his feature on the lifestyle burden that falls on international students while they pay a premium to attend Ontario colleges,. Education funding has been frozen at the provincial level for years, which leads to colleges and universities placing long-term bets on increasing numbers of high-tuition students from abroad, which puts stress on the housing supply that spills into the broader rental market.
At the grade-school level, there’s a major concern right under students’ noses: Cellphones are proving more powerful than the rules that govern them. Furthermore, whatever rules are in place are inconsistent, and most often set by schools and “enforced” by teachers with an impossible task. The problem, according to the, is that the grown-ups have abdicated responsibility for a safe learning environment by buying the argument that cellphones can be effectively limited to educational uses.
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