Hello everyone and Happy New Year, hope your Christmas Celebrations and time off with family and friends was joyful and safe? On that Note; Lets get into 2025. With "No Holds Barred" and being adrift for years but "NOW" understanding the waves of Rhetoric, or Precisely designed as a "Merry-Go-Round", and why do we have "NO MANUFACTURING"? But each day becomes closer as stated in the title of this article. Where we are now "Anchored" what does that mean, it means finally the trickle effect has started since the development of my Website. When two young gentleman were inspired, one directly, the other one reached out to me recently. Stating how his brother was in knowledge of this New College University Development, and where he contacted me with his interest in our Apprentice to Journeyman program. In acknowledging both with enthusiasm and clarity where I could only express their concerns by having them understand the "Holding Pattern" upon this development. Suggesting to both in sharing and advocating to their local MP politicians and friends with the wants and needs that this new alternative "Industry Based Institutional Development" outside of our traditional institutions has to offer.
Two Metaphors; One, pursuing to "Dock at Port", offloading alternative opportunities in Education, Skills, Training, and many other career opportunities. Two, we are the "Bus Driver" along side a Needed Collaboration of Smart Intelligent Like Minded People, Partnerships, Stakeholders, & Industry, together creating our (Board of Directors) and to maintain the bus integrity in achieving a safe transfer in delivering our New Cohort of Next Generation Students.
At the end of 2024, sitting and listening to the projections of population growth over the next 25 years, and the refection of economic development pertaining to the needs of "Manufacturing" to support the "Job" requirements that sustain the (?) projected growth stated? "LOL" Note: Manufacturing is "Build" it just doesn't arrive on your doorstep, It's Capitalism, It's Opportunities, It's Real People? You have to have something to attract "IT" which we all know doesn't exist in anything (Liberal), and neither does the 25+ years of Rhetoric coming out of both Traditional Institutions & Government(s) as expressed throughout my many blog articles, only to maintain their existence? When the institutions & government(s) bastardized manufacturing and the skills over the years, pushing University, now pushing College, it becomes the same old "BS" Rhetoric" only to sustain their own existence?
And Where Are We "NOW"1996/1999? Still Waiting?
1996 - Industry Canada Needs A Strong Infrastructure - Manufacturing Success Relies On Cost-Effective And Efficient services. Adopt To meet Changing Needs - Canada has always placed strong emphasis on a well developed infrastructure. Privatization is one avenue worth exploring, but only if costs are lowered and service quality is enhanced. For operations that count on innovation and new market development to achieve greater cost effectiveness. Note; Costs are Lowered, We'll Enhance Quality & Service. Through An Innovative Cost Effective New Market Development that inspires economic growth.
MODERN APPLICATION NEWS MAGAZINE, NOV./99 - TOOLING APPLICATIONS TRAINING KEY TO FUTURE PRODUCTIVITY - JAMES T. BAKER PRESIDENT SANVIK COROMANT U.S. - Apprenticeships are becoming a thing of the past. Our customers simply can’t wait the years that it takes for traditional apprentice training to bear fruit.
This was interest? Came across this the other day stating? (1 in 9 living in Canada work for Government meaning, 1 in 4 people in Canada work for government, therefore Government makes up almost half of the Canadian economy) I'm sure we all know what that means? "Humpty Dumpty"
Blatant Facts: Comes with few precise words that reflect many nations? https://rumble.com/v61id7z-milton-friedman-says-all-government-spending-is-taxation.html
Funding Debate Globe & Mail August 16/2010
"WITHOUT ACCESS TO EDUCATION WEALTH DISAPEARS"
In a truly powerful society, ideas reign and an educated population is seen as the greatest possible resource. ROSEANN O'REILLY RUNTE - President of Carleton University
The question of short-term gains verses long-term gains as part of corporate strategy arose in the class I took recently at Harvard Business School. The discussion broadened to oppose wealth and social development. In my mind, it is not a matter of choice. One cannot enjoy wealth without strong civil society and vice-versa. Voltaire pointer out that without food, shelter, and clothing, people would not be in the position to contribute positively to the social fabric. By the same token, if there is not the means to improve one's status through education and hard work, chaos results and wealth disappears. "The parallel can be extended to universities. In resent weeks, there has been some debate in Ontario over who should bare the cost of university education, given that both society and individuals benefit. When the contribution of the individual to the cost of the education results in overburdening debt and inaccessibility for those without significant financial means, the system is off balance and the resulting inequalities will reduce both the effectiveness of civil society and the consequent economic benefits". On the other hand, if the costs outweigh the benefits generally perceived by members of society, popular support will dwindle. Chamfort, another 18th-century French philosopher, once said that the only difference between humans and animals was that the former pay taxes. I would venture to propose, on a more serious note, that humans perceive their own fatality and think and act creatively with a view to often intangible benefits for the long-term future. Many philosophers and poets have asked what will remain when we no longer of this world. Will all great artistic and architectural monuments crumble, returning to dust? Will our best scientific formulas and technological inventions, our brightest ideas and most beautiful words disappear?
As long as there are humans, we will transit ideas and stories, inventions and discoveries, information and wisdom from one generation to the next. Knowledge and its transmissions are not only power. They are the only possible way we can preserve the best of human thought and work. Education offers us access to a point as close to the eternal as human beings can aspire. The roll of knowledge transmission and education is not solely reserved to the future. A truly powerful society is one where an educated population is understood as the greatest possible resource. "The society that limits access to education and knowledge is short sighted and destined for extinction, like the societies described in "Collapse by Jared Diamond". Survival of the human species requires not only natural resources but the transmission of experience, values and inventions. Without these there is no progress. Imagine a world without innovation. The best ideas emanate from thoughtful research, discipline and team work. They are built on the success and failures of the past".
For example, Carleton University students who recently won the national award for innovation based their concept on enhancing current technology with new electronic systems of organization. Umberto Eco's, "The Island of the Day Before", is based on the proposition that one could be caught on the international date line. With no past and no future, people dedicated their efforts to reintegrating time, preferring mortality to statis. Tolerance and respect are based on knowledge. Fear and distrust stem from ignorance. A world without access to education would be a hotbed of strife". The UNESCO peace garden project for schools offers an excellent illustration of the concept that understanding emanates from dialogue and that the key to distribute resolution requires brining people together. "Education promotes civil engagement and is essential for democratic governance". Every university in the country can cite projects in which engagement with the community builds better towns a cities, while students learn valuable lessons for life and work, becoming better citizens and custodians of what they inherit.
We can be proud of the the excellent education available in Canada. Whether you are from Peace River or Baddeck, you can aspire to the highest leadership roles. other countries may well tout the virtues of a less expensive work force, but in the "flat world" economy of "Thomas Friedman", as soon as these populations have access to education, they will begin to rival Canada's knowledge economy with better qualified workers. The only way to maintain our competitive advantage is to provide access to excellent education, thereby providing innovation and economic development. This must be our commitment to the past and the future. it is our responsibility as Canadians and our duty to our children.
NOTE: Where are we? "In education, indoctrination is the process of teaching a set of beliefs, ideas, or attitudes without allowing for question or challenge? Education promotes civil engagement and is essential for democratic governance? MEANING: Democratic governance is a system of government where the people have a say in decision-making, and where institutions operate based on democratic principles. It's based on the idea of popular sovereignty, or, Government of the people, by the people, for the people.
This next article is in reflection of the above article, and my many other blog articles posted all reflecting the "TRUE LACK OF BALLANCE"?
Note: Seems to be a Common Theme
"Financial Post Aug. 21/2010 - Research is the root of all Evils, authors say. Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - And What We Can Do About It".
By Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus - By Steven Knapp.
Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus have written a lucid, passionate and wide-ranging book on the state of America higher education and what they perceive as its increasing betrayal of its primary mission - for them, the teaching of undergraduates. That both are academics provides them with memorable, often acerbic anecdotes that neatly offset their citations of statistics and their sometimes rather sweeping generations. These anecdotes take the edge off the polemical intensity a reader might expect from the book's title, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - And What We Can Do About It. That may be because these anecdotes display insiders' familiarity, and often an implied intimacy, with distinguished academics they reside. This is not a book for those seeking a social-scientific explanation of how higher education, from its simple beginnings as a training ground for gentleman clergy, has evolved into a diverse industry that, is unquestionably the envy of the world and an integral, arguably indispensable part of the U.S. economy. But in a series of well-structured and strongly argued chapters, the book does pose searching and sometimes troubling questions about the degree to which the social utility, personal benefits and philosophical ideals promoted by admissions and publicity offices are overstated, overpriced, subordinated to extraneous purposes or distorted by self perpetuating bureaucracies. As with many indictments one must distinguish the crimes the prosecutors merely mention from those they really care about . Mr. Hacker and Ms. Dreifus list a host of crimes, or at least flaws in the system, some in the control of universities and others built into the external political, cultural or economic environment, or indeed into human nature. These include the narrow self-interestedness of academic departments; the greed of faculty members and administrators alike; the near-universal hypertrophy of "the athletics incubus"; unfunded government mandates; life time employment for pampered professors; and the demands of students and their parents for frivolous extras. But the target to which they most often and most radically return - radically in the sense that they regard it as the root of all evils and propose to root it all out - is captured in a single word: Research.
"There was a time, in their telling, when universities saw their mission as education"
Now even small U.S. colleges compel their faculties to publish for the sake of an institutional stature that teaching alone cannot confer. The authors' deepest scorn is reserved for the claim that good teaching depends upon research, and their most extreme proposal is that universities drastically reduce the amount of research they support, by "spinning off" medical schools and research centers, discontinuing paid sabbaticals and abolishing the current system of promotion and tenure, a system that tends to reward research productivity more than effective teaching. The rest of their prescriptions are scarcely controversial. Who can quarrel with a call to reduce student debt, engage all students, make students use their minds, employ technology with care or end exploitation of adjuncts? But when it comes to the role of research in universities, their insight and imagination appear to fail them. Consider, for instance, the proposal that universities divest themselves of medical schools: They are, the authors think, too distracting and costly, if not in dollars, then in their demands on a president's attention. A tempting suggestion, many a president will agree. But what an old suggestion from the pen of authors who lament the self-enclosure of traditional academic disciplines. This is the era in which some of the most searching inquiry - and most exciting teaching - is taking place precisely at the intersection of medicine and other fields, not just engineering and physics but also fields like anthropology and history. Some of our most engaged undergraduates are fascinated by fields like global health, which brings medicine and the social and human sciences together in more rich and subtle than students of my generation could have imagined. And where are the humanities more alive, right here and now, than in seminars in bioethics that expose undergraduates to searing and quite possibly unanswerable questions about the beginning and end of life? A similar point could be made about the educational value of working at the frontier of discovery in one of the research centers that Mr. Hacker and Ms. Dreifus decry. Have they spoken to the undergraduates who have enjoyed the privilege of assisting a top researcher in an active, federally financed laboratory? In my experience, the best of those students, far from shutting them themselves away in a narrow specialization, are very likely spending their time outside the lab in life-expanding service activities that, again, were quite beyond the ken of undergraduates in early generations. The dichotomies on which the authors rely - between teaching and research, liberal arts and "training" humanistic reflection and advanced inquiry - do not quite match the reality they seek to describe, with the always salutary aim of reforming it.
New Your Times News Service - Steven Knapp is president and professor of English at the George Washington University.
"On the Bright Side, Of the Right Side, I have truly noticed a greater presence being taken by many in "Christian Faith" and growing at a very noticeable rate? Truly, A Valuable Substance Required Within Our Society, In Such Troubled Times. "Hallelujah"
PLEASE NOTE: Personally Once Again, Don't Be Offended By My Agitational Comments. They're Completely Intentional.
AP or IB in simpler terms (WEL) would steal the stage every time? "Work, Earn, Learn"
Straight off the Cliff and Good Riddance "THAT WOULD WORK"?
Not surprising, Can't Imagine Canada's, but we do have Pharma, and EV plants, I believe 3 new drug companies were delivered over the past 2-3 years right Doug, job creation they called it? Or just a spin off from????????
"AWE" the "BS" continues? Guaranteed Tuition For International Students? WOW? Here at this New College University Development, "English Language is a Prerequisite, Reading Writing, Speaking, and Comprehension also, Including Being A Canadian Citizen will be a Prerequisite upon entry, there will be "No Tuition" that being one of the many benefits within this College University Development.
Out Sourcing For Decades? Quote: The Bureau of Labor Statistics says, give or take, the American economy has lost 7.5 million manufacturing jobs since 1980. Here's my question: Where did they go? Note: "Rhetoric Runs Ramped Like Cancer" comes to mind from all our Critical Thinkers in Universities and their Bogus R&D Funding that never really fixes anything but lines their own pockets? What's really agitating is "KNOWONE" questions the institutions or hold them accountable for all the "BS" they continuously portray to the public?
Would it be rude to say "Where's The Money Conestoga" profits were astounding from international students? "WOW", Everyone is a Jerry McGuire these days? Subtract 3 from 252=$249 Million I wonder just how much each University/College just in Ontario alone managed to gouge from the International student (Infestation) program? Which parked Canadians outside looking in but in good faith 3 million to help local students? LOL?
Online, Online, Online? That says it all "Laurentian University" What A Come Back From the "ONE AND ONLY" ever university to be granted CCAA. Congrats Moving Forward. Loopholes are great for the French Only?
As stated throughout this new College/University Development. The Road Forward has been expressed by many including this gentleman Mike Rowe.
"COLLEGE CLOSURES" Their analysis is based on a massive dataset of college and university information, including institution type, staffing patterns, sources of revenue, enrollments and enrollment changes, tuition revenue, measures of liquidity, financial distress, and other financial data from 2002 to 2023. "Time for a Change in North America that reflects the needs of the people"?
Staying ahead of your competitors and on top of industry trends is vital in today’s fast-changing times. Indeed we "Can't wait for the door to open and become "Disruptively Competitive" through partnerships/investors and others where the people actually come "First"?
"AWE", The gouging has come to an end will that mean that Canadians will actually mean something once again? "Disgusting Charade Played By All"?
"Ultimate Profits ($252 Million) From Gouging The International Students I Read This Not To Long Ago" from just one local college. Now, a 160 cost cutting measures? Somethings never change?
I Can Be a Smart Ass Occasionally I'm told, "To Bad So Sad"? However, just like music "If You Want Gold You Need To Go Old" stability is also achieved by past practice, where "Human Intelligence Ruled". Now with all the technology trinkets, and pushing AI, I'm assuming "Critical Thought" has gone out the window and everyone will love their new Leashed Society?
"Awe" the squeezing of higher education is coming from rising costs and stagnant public support and not necessarily from market retraction. Perhaps, an attractive difference in obtaining ones education/skills & training would be a "Smart Change Forward"? A broad knowledge of how the world works, through an ambitious Work, Earn, Learn, formula can broaden students greater economic outlook?
Perhaps we need to become more grounded, considering it was the "Higher Education Critical Thinkers That Got Us Here In The First Place"? Reflecting the two articles above and the many others posted throughout our blog articles?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/11/looming-enrollment-cliff-high-school-graduates-thr/
Education Gone Wrong Is The Tittle In This Link? So much to say about this one from 1960 (Perhaps A Whole New Article Posting)? Interesting how the former education director had a sudden departure? However, the DEI program is out the window? I also find it interesting where nothing is mentioned about the "Muslim Quran" being taught in Toronto University considering North America is "Christian Based" (Sounds Like? And Looks Like? Intentional Global Society Agitation)?
Operating costs and expected low enrolment have made the programs “financially unsustainable.” Here's "The Wake-Up Call Canada" This New Institutional Development Would Not Participate In Such Disgusting Actions or Undermining the Public. As Stated In 3 Links Below. "We're Age-Old That Has Solutions Not Illusions"?
I Don't Know What Your Encouraging Other Than Self Preservation "AWE", The Start-Ups, The "Movers & Shakers" And "The Risk Takers". LOL, LOL, LOL
AWE, This Value Chain of only 1 Sector? "Parts Manufacturing, Distribution, Vehicle Service & Repair, Automotive Dealerships.
"Step Aside" We Got This? Did I Here The Call For "PAST AGE-OLD" Consideration For Our Future" Today’s college search process requires students to consider several factors as they select the best fit for themselves. The age-old considerations are campus size, location, academic, cultural fit, cost. (And Notably Skills & Training)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/lifestyle/road-to-a-top-college-majors-to-consider-for-future-success/
YA, YA, Same Old Call Of The Wild Rhetoric.
Tightening Their Belts, What A Joke? Wait For The 2025 Funding Follies?
AWE, The French "GAME CHANGER" Where Everyone Else Gets The Shaft, After Closing The Loophole For Any Other Institution To Engage.
WOW, Advanced Manufacturing, That Terminology Has Been Going On Now For Years, So Where's The Manufacturing? I've been Listening Now For Over 25 Years? Could You Be More Specific?
May Be Intriguing To Some, Disturbing To Others, Dr. Frankenstein's Are Everywhere, And Everything Is Medical, Or Pharma These Days? Where's The Pom Pom Girls And The Banner Fund Me, Fund Me? Everything Becomes A Service, "Where Do We Fit In Developing Manufacturing for our Real Economy"?
There will be no (DEI As You Know Of It) at this New College University? "It's Where "Real Diversity Happens", "Real Work Happens", "Real Knowledge Happens", "Real Education Happens, "Real Skills & Training Happens", With "Real Ambition", With "Real Men & Women"? "If Your Looking For The (DEI Of Today) Its Not Here, Or All The Other Hogwash Ideologies we've been putting up with?
Good Bye, Know Hard Feeling, Just A New And Improved College University Replacement Putting People "First"?
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