Universities are moving away from generalized education to specialized education. In a country like Canada, because of limited funds in public spending, governments are asking universities and colleges to specialize more. This economic rationale means that the government must choose priorities and have schools compete for funding in those areas to ensure dwindling dollars are well spent. According to countless studies on the matter universities and colleges are reluctant to specialize further. Despite the Ontario government’s call for more specialization by colleges and universities — less overlap, more differences between them — schools have failed to come up with enough ways to differentiate themselves and government must start to do it for them, a blue-chip panel has concluded. source- Toronto Star 08 February 2013
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