We all know that access to post-secondary education (PSE) isn’t a sure thing—there will always be some people who aren’t aware of their educational options, and some who aren’t able to pursue them. But the challenges are particularly acute in certain demographic groups, which have a strikingly low rate of participation in post-secondary education.
This chart, prepared for the YMCA and CPSAP, shows the disproportionate rates of participation in post-secondary education among two groups facing perhaps the biggest challenges in accessing education: those whose parents had low rates of participation in PSE, and Canada’s First Nations.
It is because of statistics like the ones shown above that CPSAP targets those groups specifically in its programming—it’s an attempt not just to increase overall rates of participation in PSE, but to remedy some fundamental social inequalities, which see immigrants and First Nations Canadians at a significant disadvantage with regards to socio-economic stability and improvement relative to the population at large.
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