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Meredith E. Young; Sneha Shankar; Christina St-Onge – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Medical school admissions is a contentious and high stakes selection activity. Many assessment approaches are available to support selection; but how are decisions about building, monitoring, and adapting admissions systems made? What shapes the processes and practices that underpin selection decisions? We explore how these decisions are made…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, College Admission, Selective Admission, Undergraduate Study
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Hellingman, Sean; Mazouch, Petr; Vltavská, Kristýna; Ryckenberg, Samuel – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This work examines the choices of individuals with respect to higher education in the Czech Republic and Canada. Specifically, how do the students' socioeconomic backgrounds influence their study decisions. Data from the Czech edition of "The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions" survey and the "Canadian Survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, College Students, Socioeconomic Background
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Chernoff, Egan J. – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2023
Constantly on the lookout for and with a vested interest in Canadian mathematics education matters, because if Canadian mathematics education matters then Canadian mathematics education matters, this article is an investigation into the Canadian lottery landscape. With apologies to the Atlantic Lottery, Loto-Québec and Ontario Lottery and Gaming,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection
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Okhrei, Viktoria – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
The necessity for the development and restructuring of pharmacists' training programs to correspond their increased practical role in society has been substantiated. It has been determined that Canada for the last decade has introduced a lot of changes concerning enhancement of pharmacists' training, among which the following are of special…
Descriptors: Pharmaceutical Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Yoon, Ee-Seul; Daniels, Lyn D. – Educational Policy, 2021
Little is known about the school choice practices of Aboriginal families in settler-colonial societies, where they have been removed from their ancestral lands and/or have been subjected to discriminatory educational policies. Through the lens of settler-colonial theory, this study elucidates the "spatially positioned" school choice…
Descriptors: School Choice, Land Settlement, Canada Natives, American Indians