Educational access and massification

This article addresses the challenge of maintaining quality while increasing the availability of education to an increasing variety and number of people.  It proposes a three tiered systems: an open tier, a second selective tier and a third highly selective tier.

The Open Tier: Training, practical skills, remedial and basic university-level education can be the main functions of this tier.

The Second Tier: This tier’s function may be to provide access to full university-level education, in general and in some selected professional fields, and to masters-level graduate degrees in some disciplines.

The Third Tier: A third and highly selective level may then be functionally oriented toward state-of-the-art graduate education, and to post-graduate research in both general and professional fields.  (NS, 7/05)

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