Universities, Politics and Development in Northern Ontario and Northern Sweden: A Comparative Analysis
Both Ontario and Sweden established universities in their northern regions in the nineteen sixties. This article begins by noting that the two regions are similar in very many ways and that the pressures exerted in both for the establishment of postsecondary educational institutions were much the sa...
Published in: | Canadian Journal of Higher Education |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education
1985
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Online Access: | https://journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.php/cjhe/article/view/182976 https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v15i3.182976 |
Summary: | Both Ontario and Sweden established universities in their northern regions in the nineteen sixties. This article begins by noting that the two regions are similar in very many ways and that the pressures exerted in both for the establishment of postsecondary educational institutions were much the same. The article continues by comparing the rationales and principles upon which the two sets of universities were founded. It is indicated that while the principle of regional access dominated in northern Ontario the principle of regional service dominated in northern Sweden. Thus the northern Ontario universities began as small, basically undergraduate Arts and Science institutions while the universities in northern Sweden began as specialized professional institutes intended to solve specific regional problems and disparities. The article goes on to analyse the academic, financial and geographic problems faced by the two sets of northern universities since they were founded and the developments that have taken place. An assessment is then made of the successes andfailures of the two systems and it is argued that although some convergence has taken place the Swedish approach has been the more successful of the two. L'Ontario et la Suède ont, parallèlement, créé des universités dans leurs régions du nord au cours des années soixante. Le présent article commence en mentionnant la similitude des deux régions, sous bien des aspects, tout comme celle des pressions exercées dans les deux cas, au sujet de la création d'instituts universitaires. Cet article se poursuit avec une comparaison entre les raisonne-ments et les principes sur lesquels les deux établissements universitaires furent fondés. Il est précisé que dans le nord de l'Ontario le principe prédominant était la difficulté d'accès au point de vue régional, alors que dans le nord de la Suède c'était le principe du service régional qui prédominait. C'est pourquoi les universités du nord de l'Ontario furent au début de petites institutions, préparant principalement ... |
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