Follow the new blog on the challenges of providing quality education from OPSEU/NUPGE.
T
oronto (03 Oct. 2013) - The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/NUPGE) has launched a new blog on quality education in Ontario colleges. It seeks to find out what quality education means to you, why it's important and how we can increase it.
Follow Professor Mackay on his blog as he visits Ontario colleges to talk about quality education
The conversation about quality education is one we all need to have, whether professors, librarians, counselors, students, or employers. You can follow Professor Kevin Mackay as he visits with faculty at Colleges across Ontario and blogs about challenges to maintaining quality education.
The purpose of the campaign is to collect stories and raise awareness about the challenges facing our members in an environment that is suffering from scarce funding, increasingly corporate and autocratic management, and decreasing full-time work. We're hoping to reverse these trends in coming contract negotiations, and to give professors, counselors and librarians the ability to protect academic standards, ensure the full-time staffing needed to deliver quality education, and create a collegial work environment that respects faculty academic freedom.
Check back often for updates
In the coming weeks Mackay will be posting about his trips to different colleges, about the stories he's heard, and about the complex issues that confront education today. Please check back often, as he'll be updating regularly!
Anyone can provide feedback on the blog by filling out the Feedback Form. You can tell us how you are connected to education (student, professor, librarian, parent, concerned citizen) but you don't have to include your name or other identifying details if you don't want to. Mackay will be responding to feedback and posting some of the discussions on the blog as the campaign moves forward.
