A study co-authored by Higher Ed Professor and OISE Dean, Glen Jones, finds that government regulation and accountability measures have been increasing across five provinces

ELP Professor Carol Campbell explains why the Fraser Institute's rankings of Ontario elementary schools are problematic

Professor Stephanie Waterman has won the NASPA Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award for her dedication to Indigenous graduate student success and work in Indigenous student affairs

Kindergarten teacher reacts to government consulting on class size caps (CBC Metro Morning with Matt Galloway)
Listen: ELP Professor and Chair Nina Bascia weighs in on the impact of increasing class sizes

New paper on "Provincial Oversight and University Autonomy in Canada" from OISE research team.

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The University of Toronto ranks highest in Canada in nine different subjects, and is one of only eight universities in the world to place in the top 50 across 11 subjects, according to new rankings by the prestigious Times Higher Education.

Professor Mundy teaches Comparative and International Education

Prof. Marvin Zuker,a former judge of the Ontario Court of Justice, says the consent of both the judge and opposing counsel and party should be obtained before a judge could appear as counsel.

Prof Lance McCready authored the "Youth Employment" section of the report: Crossing Places: A Review of Urban Youth Policy 1960s-2010s, first authored by Dr. Dirk Rodricks and Dr. Kathleen Gallagher.

Read Findings and Recommendations from the Independent Review of Assessment and Reporting, Ontario: A Learning Province

Rabble online article reviews OISE conference "The Psychiatrization of Indigenous People as a Continuation of Genocide". Watch the keynote address by Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, Indigenous Scholar, member of the Oneida Nation and professor at St. Thomas University.

A new scholarship has been established at OISE by Dr. Bonnie Burstow. Burstow's Scholarship for Research into Violence Against Indigenous Women: In Memory of Helen Betty Osborne will be directed to a graduate student whose thesis focuses on violence against Indigenous women. Priority will be given to students who are themselves Indigenous women.

AECD Professor, Shahrzad Mojab is scholar, teacher and activist internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement and violence on women's learning and education; gender, state, migration and diaspora; Marxist feminism and anti-racism pedagogy.

In the six years that she's been in Canada, Sara Asalya has been making a mark within the student immigrant community.

AECD Professor Lance McCready has been appointed Interim Director of the University of Toronto's Transitional Year Program. This important program helps adults without a high school diploma qualify for university admission.

In a recent op-ed, OISE doctoral student Sachin Maharaj argues that eliminating elite specialized public schools may help reduce racial disparities in school systems. "Policies and programs that have the effect of dividing students along lines like race and socioeconomic status, and that create exclusive benefits for small groups of students, should have no place in a publicly funded education system," said Maharaj.

A new program by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Development seeks to address the gender gap in university leadership and encourage women to pursue higher academic administrative roles. The first of its kind in Canada, the program will operate out of Winnipeg, Manitoba this fall. Higher Ed Professor Angela Hildyard weighs in.

Established in 2003, this award is granted to one graduating doctoral student annually whose work demonstrates research excellence and advances knowledge in the field of education in an impactful way.

An important context for this article are battles in which Professor Burstow partook from 2006 until a couple of years ago which led to the creation of the world's first antipsychiatry scholarship at University of Toronto.

Last spring, the University of Toronto undertook its first ever Alumni Impact Survey. The goal was to measure the ways our diverse and multitalented alumni contribute to society.

Earlier this month, the Council of Canadian Academies released a report - Competing in a Global Innovation Economy: The Current State of R&D in Canada, the latest installment in this tradition.

The LASIG Dissertation Award at CIES highlights outstanding doctoral dissertations that address the analysis of educational reforms, policies or practices in Latin America under a comparative / international perspective. Claudia Diaz Rios dissertation, titled, "When Global Ideas Collide with Domestic Interests: The Politics of Secondary Education Governance in Argentina, Chile and Colombia", was selected by the Outstanding Dissertation Award committee for the 2018 award.

In the Educational Leadership and Policy EdD program, "the highlights of the changes include streamlined courses and focus on a cohort-based model to provide a more structured academic experience, sense of community and enhanced access to student support," said LHAE Associate Chair Professor Peter Sawchuk.

The nature of universities as organizations helps explain why so much symbolic management takes place when they are faced with thorny subjects.

Congratulations to professor Stephanie Waterman for winning the 2018 Senior Scholar Award from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).
This award recognizes senior members of their profession who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to ACPA's mission of generating and disseminating knowledge and who have committed to further advance research and theory.

Research from the University of Minnesota and ELP's professors Kenneth Leithwood, Stephen Anderson and Blair Mascall, shows the impact of school leadership.

In a first-ever survey of PhD graduates from the University of Toronto, the School of Graduate Studies found that alumni who graduated between 2000 and 2015 are working in 97 different countries, with careers ranging from neurosurgeon to user-experience researcher.