By Gareth Hampshire. A parent in the Sturgeon School Division is raising questions about how grants that follow indigenous students are being spent by the school board. More...
16 février 2016
16 février 2016
UBC divestment controversy grows after alternate low carbon fund announced
A UBC proposal to create an alternative, low carbon endowment investment fund is not sitting well with UBC students and faculty who voted overwhelmingly in favour of fossil fuel divestment last year. More...
16 février 2016
Mount Allison drops women's and gender studies program, says prof
Students notified by professor that university has cut budget for program in 2016-17 academic year. More...
16 février 2016
Resist Those Who Put A Price On Academic And Artistic Freedom
By Danielle S. McLaughlin. Is there a difference between putting pressure on government and on a non-governmental agency? And what, for these purposes, IS government? Should a university, which guarantees academic and artistic freedom, capitulate to pressure put on it by a generous donor? Should an activist organization make policy decisions based upon what may or may not appeal to funders? Should a political party. More...
16 février 2016
Indigenous education at Winnipeg's major universities up for debate Thursday
Two of Manitoba's major universities are approaching indigenous education very differently and that's the topic of debate on Thursday.
Last spring the University of Winnipeg approved a motion making it mandatory for students to take at least one indigenous studies course to graduate. More...
16 février 2016
Speedy typing kills student essays, study shows
By Tom Spears. A generation that grew up on computers can now type faster than it can think — with bad results.
Typing fast doesn’t just cause typos, the University of Waterloo found. It also allows students to write before they formulate their ideas fully.
In other words, fast typing undermines the content of their writing. More...
16 février 2016
Aboriginal grads join push to help peers embrace higher learning
By Louise Brown. Raigelee Alorut, an Inuit grandmother, is among the aboriginal university grads joining a campaign urging indigenous people to get a higher education. More...
16 février 2016
First aboriginal woman to head Canadian law school lives up to her name
By May Warren. Angelique EagleWoman did not get her full name until she was 15.
In her Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe, one of the Dakota Nations, children are given nicknames at birth and receive their formal names as teenagers, when their true character is revealed. More...
16 février 2016
Aboriginal health researchers join in criticism of funding changes
By Elizabeth Payne. Aboriginal health researchers are the latest group at odds with the federal agency in charge of funding medical research.
The researchers and others say reforms at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research mean less support for aboriginal research at a time when conditions in First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities are at “crisis proportions” and require more focus. More...
16 février 2016
B.C. universities eye mandatory indigenous studies course
By Tracy Sherlock. One day, it may be mandatory to take a course in aboriginal history and culture to graduate from university in B.C.
It’s a step the University of Winnipeg has already taken. Starting next year, every undergraduate at that institution and at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., will have to take at least one indigenous studies course. There are several courses to choose from and the total number of credits required to graduate does not change. More...
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