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Some countries with much smaller populations than Canada’s 35 million, have developed a sharply differentiated or tiered university system. But Canada’s university system evinces a different prevailing ethos. It aspires to lesser differences overall—in terms of caliber of teaching, content, research, and facilities. Thus, last year, Canada’s leading national English-language magazine, Maclean’s, reported on Canada’s Big Five universities crying out for more research funding.
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Zaretsky, D. (2017). Canada: Canada’s Egalitarian Debate. In: Mihut, G., Altbach, P.G., Wit, H.d. (eds) Understanding Global Higher Education. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-044-8_8
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