What do we know about the pathways and transitions of canadian students in post-secondary education? : Que savons-nous des parcours et transitions des étudiants canadiens dans les études postsecondaires?

The fifth concentrates on the larger tenden- in the 1990s, conditions of the pursuit of studies, cies observed in the evolution of inequalities in PSE, persistence and success. [...] Also, according the the federal government — by virtue of its spending Canadian Federation of Students (2007), the Northwest power — intervenes in the field of post-secondary Territories (who withdrew from the CSLP in 1988) education in the name of national interest and the and more recently, Nunavut, negotiated separate principle of equal opportunity. [...] First, it was economic goal, and that of the economy of knowledge, believed that in an industrial and technological places emphasis precisely upon the economic dimen- society, progress and development depended upon sion of the referent: production, distribution and use the development of knowledge and the training of a of knowledge and of information; transmission of qualified labour force. [...] The second and communication technologies are not reducible addressed performance of universities, in terms of to simple technological advances, and that we must the quality of education, excellence in research, and take into account inequalities of access to the infor- overall efficiency of the system, while the third related mation sources, content and infrastructure. [...] In Quebec, this concern — which can be found In his reform of the education system following in all sectors of public administration following the the suggestions of the États généraux sur l’éducation revision of the Law on Public Administration in the Minister of Education made graduation his 2000 — translates in a number of ways in the field of objective, which the commission had proposed as a h