It doesn't take much to see that today's higher education system needs a restart. Colleges and universities across Canada face varying degrees of financial crisis and interference in research by corporations and governments. At the same time, students are experiencing growing inequitable access to higher education.
That's the bad news. The good news is there are proven alternative education models, but it requires moving from the current fixation on rankings to co-operation.
Post-secondary institutions spend too much effort boosting their university rankings, despite studies demonstrating that spending limited resources on the ranking race diverts resources from improving education to the detriment of students and communities.
