By Léo Charbonneau. A panel at next week's Congress will discuss a new compendium of Canadian postsecondary education data sources.
I recently came across a link on the University of Alberta website, under the title “Convocation Statistics,” that has times to completion rates for graduate students. More...
By Léo Charbonneau. While on a three-day state visit to Canada at the end of May, the king and queen of the Netherlands unveiled the new Liberation Scholarship Program that will provide 70 scholarships to Canadians to study at Dutch universities. The one-time scholarships are being offered for the 2015-16 academic year. More...
By Sean Coughlan. Oxford University is set to have a female head for the first time in its history, with the nomination of Louise Richardson as vice chancellor.
Prof Richardson is currently in charge at St Andrews and has previously had a senior role at Harvard University.
If she is formally adopted as the 272nd vice chancellor, Prof Richardson will follow almost eight centuries of male heads of Oxford University. More...
By Trevor Howell. LGBTQ students across Canada participated Monday in an interactive “think tank” event discussing the challenges they face at school every day — including homophobic bullying — and strategies to overcome those barriers.
The event was developed by the Canadian Safe School Network, which partnered with several agencies in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Annapolis Valley and Calgary, each forming a “think tank” composed of 14 to 18 students. More...
Will that be debit or Bitcoin?
A British Columbia university has started accepting the digital currency Bitcoin at all of its bookstores, allowing customers to open their mobile wallets in what's believed to be a first for post-secondary institutions in Canada.
Simon Fraser University has also installed automated Bitcoin vending machines on its campuses in Burnaby, Vancouver and Surrey. More...
By Paul W. Bennett. Since its inception, Halifax Humanities has been bridging the gap between the ivory tower and the streets.
“Education is a public good,” says Mary Lu Redden, “and it should not be reserved as a privilege for those of means.”
That’s how the director of the Halifax Humanities Society describes the mission of the city’s most unique university education outreach program. More...
By Sachin Maharaj. Expert panel concluded there was no evidence of imbalance between the demand for and supply of math and science skills. More...
By Jared Lindzon. The priorities of Canadian students entering the job market are changing rapidly, and many of the country’s employers are failing to keep up with those changes, a new survey concludes. Read more...By Simona Chiose. Dozens of university and college leaders from the Netherlands will begin a visit to Canada on Wednesday, part of an economic and education mission by the country’s King and Queen, one that Canadian educators say could be a model of how to make higher education central to growing trade relationships. Read more...
France's new mega university Paris-Saclay will officially open for business later this year, but can it really rival the very best institutions in the world? French researcher Jean-Claude Thoenig takes a closer look.
After decades of planning, a new generation of students and researchers will start their first full academic year in September 2015 at the University of Paris-Saclay, a huge, ambitious project to bring together a group of 19 higher education institutions alongside a business cluster on the outskirts of the French capital. It has been dubbed the French Silicon Valley. More...
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