{"id":7510,"date":"2009-11-06T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2009-11-06T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:16:08","slug":"catching-up-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/catching-up-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/11\/06\/lessig\">Catching Up to Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER, B.C. &#8212; Caveats about the data aside \u2013 and there are plenty, admittedly \u2013 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development\u2019s heavily used rankings on countries\u2019 college outcomes place Canada at the top of the list for the proportion of citizens with a postsecondary credential.<\/p>\n<p>So when President Obama, in a speech to Congress in February, set a goal of having the United States get back to the top of that ranking by 2020, &#8220;that means that you&#8217;re trying to bump us off,&#8221; Noel Baldwin, a policy and research officer at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Fund, told a group of mostly American researchers during the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Catching Up to Canada VANCOUVER, B.C. &#8212; Caveats about the data aside \u2013 and there are plenty, admittedly \u2013 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development\u2019s heavily used rankings on countries\u2019 college outcomes place Canada at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/catching-up-to-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[68,2208,6289,5124],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-canada","tag-obama","tag-oecd","tag-university-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7512,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions\/7512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}