Canada's Community Colleges
Institutions in transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4097542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard M Cantor (Loughborough University, corresponding author), Leonard Cantor |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-183 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079212331382647 |
| OpenAlex | W2154506870 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
The paper describes the current extent of Canada's Community Colleges, their diversity and varying functions, both between one province and another and also within individual provinces. It analyses the major characteristics which many of them have in common, including their wide variety of programmes, their responsiveness to the needs of the communities in which they are located, including their accessibility to as wide a range of student needs as possible, their increasing involvement in vocational programmes involving the retraining and updating of older workers, and the ways in which they have responded to the needs of recent immigrants and to the increasingly multicultural society which many parts of Canada are becoming. The paper then examines the changing relationships between the federal and provincial governments and the colleges, including the attempts by the federal Government increasingly to ‘privatise ̊s vocational education and training, and the growing control over the colleges by provincial governments which in some cases is leading to the introduction of the accreditation of their programmes, something which has hitherto largely been absent in Canadian colleges, and the upgrading of their programmes, often in collaboration with universities. Finally, some comparisons are made between the colleges and their closest British equivalents, the further education colleges
Accreditation · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Immigration · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Retraining · Sociology · Vocational education · Canadian Identity and History · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2019 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |