Sectors, Institutional Types, and the Challenges of Shifting Categories: A Canadian Commentary

This is the post-print of the following article: Jones, Glen A. (2009). Sectors, Institutional Types, and the Challenges of Shifting Categories: A Canadian Commentary. Higher Education Quarterly 63(4), 371-383. The final form is published at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2273.2009.00439.x/abstractWhile the English system makes a relatively clear distinction between higher education and further education, the Canadian approach has been to use higher education as a more inclusive term and to categorize sectors on the basis of institutional type. Higher education policy is decentralized and the responsibility of provinces that have made quite different decisions about institutional categories and system structures. The boundaries between institutional types have been blurring and there has been a growth in articulation, collaboration and hybrid relationships between institutions and sectors