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Higher education in Ontario, the Glossary

Higher education in Ontario includes postsecondary education and skills training regulated by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities and provided by universities, colleges of applied arts and technology, and private career colleges.^[1]

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Academic Matters

Academic Matters: The Journal of Higher Education is a Canadian magazine which publishes articles on issues of relevance to postsecondary education in Canada and internationally, as well as literature and film reviews, original fiction, research notes and commentaries.

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Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer

The Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer (ACAT) is an independent body created in 1974 to facilitate transfer agreements between the various post-secondary institutions in Alberta.

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Algoma University

Algoma University, commonly shortened to Algoma U, is a Canadian public university in the province of Ontario, with campuses in Brampton, Sault Ste. Marie, and Timmins.

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Assumption University (Windsor, Ontario)

Assumption University is a Roman Catholic university in Windsor, Ontario, federated with the University of Windsor.

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Bicameralism

Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.

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Bill Davis

William Grenville Davis, (July 30, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985.

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Bob Rae

Robert Keith Rae (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who is the current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020.

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British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer

The British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) governs the credit-transfer agreements between post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada.

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Brock University

Brock University is a public research university in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

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Canada Education Savings Grant

The Canada Education Savings Grant (Subvention canadienne pour l’épargne-études, CESG) is part of a Government of Canada program, administered through Employment and Social Development Canada, to assist with savings for Canadian children's higher education.

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Canada Foundation for Innovation

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI; Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation, FCI) is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to invest in research facilities and equipment in Canada's universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions.

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Canada Health Transfer

The Canada Health Transfer (CHT) (Transfert canadien en matière de santé) is the Canadian government's transfer payment program in support of the health systems of the provinces and territories of Canada.

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Canada Learning Bond

The Canada Learning Bond (Bon d'études canadien, CLB) is a grant paid by the government of Canada to assist low-income families with saving money for their children's post-secondary education.

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Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation

The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation was a private, independent organization created by an act of the Parliament of Canada in 1998.

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Canada Research Chair

Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program.

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Canadian Alliance of Student Associations

The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) is a federally focused student advocacy organization.

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Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation (Confédération canadienne) was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation, called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867.

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Canadian federalism

Canadian federalism involves the current nature and historical development of the federal system in Canada.

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Canadian Federation of Students

The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) is a student organization in Canada, representing over 530,000 students from across Canada.

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Carleton University

Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Centennial College (Canada)

The Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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College (Canada)

In Canadian English, the term college usually refers to a career college, technical, trades, community college, college of applied arts or applied technology, or an applied science school.

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College Student Alliance

The College Student Alliance (CSA) is a provincial advocacy organization in Ontario that represents students attending community colleges.

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Constitution of Canada

The Constitution of Canada (Constitution du Canada) is the supreme law in Canada.

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Constitutional Act 1791

The Constitutional Act 1791 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which was passed during the reign of George III.

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Council of Ontario Universities

The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) provides a forum for Ontario's universities to collaborate and advocate in support of their shared mission to the benefit and prosperity of students, communities and the province of Ontario.

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Critical thinking

Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, skeptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation.

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Dalton McGuinty

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. (born July 19, 1955) is a former Canadian politician who served as the 24th premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013.

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David Peterson

David Robert Peterson (born December 28, 1943) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 20th premier of Ontario from 1985 to 1990.

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David Trick (university administrator)

David Trick (born 1955) is a former Ontario civil servant and university administrator.

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Deputy minister

Deputy minister is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system.

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Diocese of Huron

The Diocese of Huron is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

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Dominican University College

The Dominican University College (DUC; Collège universitaire dominicain) is a bilingual university located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Doug Ford

Douglas Robert Ford Jr.

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Education in Ontario

Education in Ontario comprises public and private primary schools, secondary schools and post-secondary institutions.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC; Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 95,000 baptized members in 519 congregations, with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–Canada, having 47,607 baptized members.

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Executive Council of Ontario

The Executive Council of Ontario (Conseil des ministres de l'Ontario), often informally referred to as the Cabinet of Ontario (Cabinet de l'Ontario), is the cabinet of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Flavelle commission

The Flavelle commission, officially the royal commission on the University of Toronto, was a royal commission that studied university governance in Ontario.

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George A. Drew

George Alexander Drew (May 7, 1894 – January 4, 1973) was a Canadian politician.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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Gerald Hagey

Joseph Gerald Hagey (September 28, 1904 – October 26, 1988) was a Canadian businessman, academic, and a founder and first president of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Governance in higher education

Governance in higher education is the means by which institutions for higher education (tertiary or post-secondary education) are formally organized and managed (though often there is a distinction between definitions of management and governance).

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada.

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Government of Ontario

The Government of Ontario (Gouvernement de l'Ontario) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Great Depression in Canada

The worldwide Great Depression of the early 1930s was a social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and often homeless.

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Higher education in Canada

Higher education in Canada includes provincial, territorial, Indigenous and military higher education systems.

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Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) is a provincial agency funded by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU).

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House of Assembly

House of Assembly is a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral parliament.

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Howard Hillen Kerr

Howard Hillen Kerr (December 25, 1900 - June 16, 1984) was the first principal of the Ryerson Institute of Technology (now Toronto Metropolitan University).

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Ian D. Clark (civil servant)

Ian D. Clark, (born April 15, 1946) is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, a senior fellow in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, a Canadian former civil servant, and former president of the Council of Ontario Universities.

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Investment

Investment is traditionally defined as the "commitment of resources to achieve later benefits".

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Isaac Brock

Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB (6 October 1769 – 13 October 1812) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Guernsey.

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Isaac Hellmuth

Isaac Hellmuth (December 14, 1819 – 28 May 1901), second Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, was the founder of Huron University College and the University of Western Ontario, one of Canada's leading universities.

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Jill Dunlop

Jill Dunlop is a Canadian politician who is the Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities since June 18, 2021.

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John Graves Simcoe

John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior.

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John Robarts

John Parmenter Robarts (January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971.

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John Strachan

John Strachan (12 April 1778 – 1 November 1867) was a notable figure in Upper Canada, an "elite member" of the Family Compact, and the first Anglican Bishop of Toronto.

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Kathleen Wynne

Kathleen O'Day Wynne (born May 21, 1953) is a former Canadian politician who served as the 25th premier of Ontario and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018.

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Lakehead University

Lakehead University is a public research university with campuses in Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ontario, Canada.

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Laurentian University

Laurentian University (Université Laurentienne), officially Laurentian University of Sudbury, is a mid-sized bilingual public university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, incorporated on March 28, 1960.

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Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA; Assemblée législative de l'Ontario) is the legislative chamber of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Legislative council

A legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state.

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Leslie Frost

Leslie Miscampbell Frost (September 20, 1895 – May 4, 1973) was a politician in Ontario, Canada, who served as the province's 16th premier from May 4, 1949, to November 8, 1961.

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Lieutenant governor

A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction.

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List of business schools in Canada

The following is a list of business schools in Canada, organized by province.

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List of Canadian universities by endowment

This list of Canadian universities by endowment groups the universities in Canada according to their endowments.

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List of colleges in Canada

This is a list of colleges in Canada.

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List of colleges in Ontario

Colleges in Ontario may refer to several types of educational institutions.

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List of law schools in Canada

A number of law schools in Canada operate as a faculty or as an affiliated school to a Canadian public university.

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List of Ontario students' associations

This is a list of students' associations in Ontario, Canada.

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List of universities in Canada

Universities in Canada are established and operate under provincial and territorial government charters, directed by First Nations bands, or by federal legislation.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Martin Luther University College

Martin Luther University College, formerly Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada federated with Wilfrid Laurier University, located in Waterloo, Ontario.

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McMaster University

McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Mike Harris

Michael Deane Harris (born January 23, 1945) is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 22nd premier of Ontario from 1995 to 2002 and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC Party) from 1990 to 2002.

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Ministry of Colleges and Universities

The Ministry of Colleges and Universities is the ministry of the Government of Ontario responsible for administration of laws relating to post-secondary education.

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Ministry of Education (Ontario)

The Ministry of Education is the ministry of the Government of Ontario responsible for government policy, funding, curriculum planning and direction in all levels of public education, including elementary and secondary schools.

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Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church.

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Mitchell Hepburn

Mitchell Frederick Hepburn (August 12, 1896 – January 5, 1953) was the 11th premier of Ontario, from 1934 to 1942.

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Murray G. Ross

Murray George Ross, (April 12, 1910 – July 20, 2000) was a Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.

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Nipissing University

Nipissing University is a public university located in North Bay, Ontario, Canada.

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OCAD University

Ontario College of Art & Design University, commonly known as OCAD University or OCAD U, is a public art university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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OCAS Application Services

OCAS Application Services, formerly known as the Ontario College Application Service (OCAS) is a non-profit corporation created in 1991 by the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Ontario Academic Credit

The Ontario Academic Credit (OAC), which may also be known as 12b (Cours préuniversitaire de l'Ontario or CPO) was a fifth year of secondary school education that previously existed in the province of Ontario, Canada, designed for students preparing for post-secondary education.

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Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations

The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) is a Canadian non-profit organization that represents 17,000 teachers, researchers, and librarians through its interaction with the Ontario government, opposition parties, related agencies, and associations.

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Ontario Graduate Scholarship

The Ontario Graduate Scholarship(s) (OGS) program offers, merit based, annual scholarships to eligible students who will pursue graduate studies in order to complete a master's degree, PhD or doctorate at a university in Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party (OLP; Parti libéral de l'Ontario, PLO) is a political party in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario New Democratic Party

The Ontario New Democratic Party (Nouveau Parti démocratique de l'Ontario; abbr. ONDP or NDP) is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario Public Service Employees Union

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU; Syndicat des employés de la fonction publique de l'Ontario) is a trade union representing public sector employees in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario Student Assistance Program

The Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) (Régime d'aide financière aux étudiantes et étudiants de l'Ontario (RAFEO)) is a provincial financial aid program that offers grants and loans to help Ontario students pay for their post-secondary education.

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Ontario Tech University

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology, branded as Ontario Tech University or Ontario Tech, is a public research university located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance

The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) is an alliance of students' unions in Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario Universities' Application Centre

The Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC) (Centre de demande d’admission aux universités de l’Ontario) is a non-profit organization based in Guelph that processes online applications for admission to universities in Ontario, Canada.

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Parliament of Great Britain

The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland.

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Premier of Ontario

The premier of Ontario (premier ministre de l'Ontario) is the head of government of Ontario.

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Problem solving

Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities.

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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre to centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada.

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Province of Quebec (1763–1791)

The Province of Quebec (Province de Québec) was a colony in British North America which comprised the former French colony of Canada.

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Queen's University at Kingston

Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario), commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Rae Report

The Rae Report was the result of a provincial review of post-secondary education led by former Ontario Premier Bob Rae.

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Registered education savings plan

A registered education savings plan (Régimes enregistrés d’épargne-études, RESP) in Canada is an investment vehicle available to caregivers to save for their children's post-secondary education.

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Registered retirement savings plan

A registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) (régime enregistré d'épargne-retraite, REER), or retirement savings plan (RSP), is a type of financial account in Canada for holding savings and investment assets.

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Research

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".

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Richard J. Van Loon

Richard Van Loon (born 1940) is a former Canadian civil servant and ex-president of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent.

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Royal Military College of Canada

The Royal Military College of Canada (French), abbreviated in English as RMC and in French as CMR, is a military academy and, since 1959, a degree-granting university of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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ServiceOntario

ServiceOntario is part of the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery which provides a single point of contact for core provincial government services to individuals and businesses in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, CRSH), often colloquially pronounced 'shirk', is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and training in the humanities and social sciences.

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Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

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Student financial aid in Canada

Government sponsored Student Loans in Canada was designed to help post-secondary students pay for their education in Canada.

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Students' union

A students' union or student union, also known by many other names, is a student organization present in many colleges, universities, and high schools.

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Tertiary education

Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.

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The Review of Higher Education

The Review of Higher Education is an academic journal founded in 1978 and the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

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Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met), formerly Ryerson University, is a public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Normal School

The Toronto Normal School was a teachers college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Tradesperson

A tradesperson or tradesman/woman is a skilled worker that specialises in a particular trade.

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Transfer credit

Transfer credit, credit transfer, and advanced standing are the terms used by colleges and universities for the procedure of granting credit to a student for educational experiences or courses undertaken at another institution.

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Trent University

Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham.

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U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities

The U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities (U15 – Regroupement des universités de recherche du Canada; commonly shortened to U15) is an association of 15 Canadian public research universities.

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Undergraduates of Canadian Research Intensive Universities

The Undergraduates of Canadian Research Intensive Universities (UCRU) is an alliance of students' unions in Canada.

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University College, Toronto

University College, popularly referred to as UC, is a constituent college of the University of Toronto, created in 1853 specifically as an institution of higher learning free of religious affiliation.

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University colleges in Ontario

A university college is a federated or affiliated academic university institution of a larger public university (often referred to as the "parent" campus).

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University of Guelph

The University of Guelph (abbreviated U of G) is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa (Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada.

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University of Windsor

The University of Windsor (UWindsor, U of W, or UWin) is a public research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

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Upper Canada

The Province of Upper Canada (province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_Ontario

Also known as History of higher education in Ontario.

, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, House of Assembly, Howard Hillen Kerr, Ian D. Clark (civil servant), Investment, Isaac Brock, Isaac Hellmuth, Jill Dunlop, John Graves Simcoe, John Robarts, John Strachan, Kathleen Wynne, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Legislative council, Leslie Frost, Lieutenant governor, List of business schools in Canada, List of Canadian universities by endowment, List of colleges in Canada, List of colleges in Ontario, List of law schools in Canada, List of Ontario students' associations, List of universities in Canada, London, Martin Luther University College, McMaster University, Mike Harris, Ministry of Colleges and Universities, Ministry of Education (Ontario), Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Mitchell Hepburn, Murray G. Ross, Nipissing University, OCAD University, OCAS Application Services, OECD, Ontario Academic Credit, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Liberal Party, Ontario New Democratic Party, Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Ontario Student Assistance Program, Ontario Tech University, Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance, Ontario Universities' Application Centre, Parliament of Great Britain, Premier of Ontario, Problem solving, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Queen's University at Kingston, Rae Report, Registered education savings plan, Registered retirement savings plan, Research, Richard J. Van Loon, Royal charter, Royal Military College of Canada, ServiceOntario, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Statistics Canada, Student financial aid in Canada, Students' union, Tertiary education, The Review of Higher Education, Thunder Bay, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto Normal School, Tradesperson, Transfer credit, Trent University, U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, Undergraduates of Canadian Research Intensive Universities, University College, Toronto, University colleges in Ontario, University of Guelph, University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, University of Western Ontario, University of Windsor, Upper Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University, William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, William McMaster, York University, 1995 Ontario general election.

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