The Business + Higher Education Roundtable has released a three-part report that calls for greater differentiation in Canada’s postsecondary education systems. In the first part, the authors point to global successes of differentiated systems, highlighting key principles that these systems follow. The authors then identify current problems facing Canadian postsecondary education including mission drift, inefficient use of public funds, and systemic mediocrity and the expected challenges in addressing these problems. In the final part of the report, the authors propose several policy initiatives to successfully differentiate institutions. In doing so, they highlight problems from part two that these initiatives will address, as well as the current state of these initiatives in Canadian PSE.
