Degrees of opportunity

The only other public degree- granting institutions are the Royal Military College of Canada, which is under the jurisdiction of the Department of National Defense, and the Ontario College of Art and Design, both of which are associate members of the Council of Ontario Universities. [...] A typical statement of the objects of a university include the advancement of learning and the intellectual, and spiritual, social, moral, and/or physical development of the members of the university and of society. [...] Given this context, it is not surprising that in some systems far more first-year postsecondary students enroll in the non-university sector compared to the university sector, for example 75% of first-year students in the Netherlands enroll in the Hogescholen and only 25% in the universities, and 60% of first-year Finnish students enroll in the polytechnics while 40% enroll in the universities (Ma [...] Most emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century as a function of the expansion of higher education and the recognition that a second institutional form, in addition to the university, was required in the transition to mass higher education. [...] Following some of the recommendations of the Macdonald report of 1962, the province limited the expansion of the university sector to include two new independent universities (Victoria, a former college, and the new Simon Fraser University) but facilitated regional accessibility to higher education by eventually creating a network of new community colleges that would offer the first two years of u