On November 18, Daniel Munro will likely feel the same elation and relief as thousands of other University of Toronto students that day: they are graduating.
I am the coordinator of a humanities-based, adult education outreach program called University in the Community (UitC).
As regular readers of Learning Curves will already know, adult education programs are as varied as the interests of the people who sign up for them.
The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities requires all full time college students to take four to six general education courses
The world of work is getting more competitive with inflated credentials required for positions which once required only a high school diploma, with the disappearance of “good” jobs because of offshoring, technology replacing people and so on.