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18 décembre 2015

How mixing and matching is making education more unique

By . Whether it’s our musical playlists, the programs we PVR, or the shows we live-stream or download, the information age is all about customization, tailoring content to match our interests. And we expect to consume that content how, when and wherever we want. For older generations, it’s an expectation that has evolved. But Generations Y and Z, those massive cohorts of young digital natives, have never known a different reality, and it’s fuelling a fresh, unbundled approach to post-secondary education. Read more...

18 décembre 2015

Closed Minds on Campus

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "wsj.com"By John H. McWhorter. Today’s student protesters start with valuable observations, writes John H. McWhorter, but then they drift into a mistaken idea of what a university—and even a society—should be. Read more...

18 décembre 2015

‘The torch which illuminates the world’: Canada, science and democracy

By . By making science diplomacy a pillar of Canada’s international strategy, we both reaffirm and strengthen Canada’s important contributions to world affairs. Here’s why. Read more...

18 décembre 2015

Making people uncomfortable is education’s job

The GuardianBy Rick MacLean. “Oh no,” he asked. “Did I get fired?”
I smiled.
“You did,” I said as I reached for the Sharpie fine point marker with the red ink I reserve for such special occasions.
“FIRED,” I wrote on the story the student had, no doubt, worked on so industriously.
His crime? He’d spelled a name wrong. In my business, a reporter who gets a name wrong doesn’t have much of a future punching computer keys. If you get the name wrong, what else is wrong in your story?
The student took the piece of paper, turned and left my office. Just outside my door he held it aloft. More...

18 décembre 2015

New rules make it ‘nearly impossible’ for employers to keep foreign graduates on staff

Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy Jason Tchir. Before Ottawa’s points-based Express Entry system was introduced on Jan. 1, international students with a year of Canadian skilled work experience were almost guaranteed to stay by getting permanent residency under the Canadian Experience Class (CEC). Read more...
18 décembre 2015

‘Practically free’ university is changing lives

Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy Barbara Balfour. While cleaning the bathroom of a home in the west end of Toronto, a young Filipino nanny tuned into a TED Talk that would change the course of her life’s journey. Read more...
18 décembre 2015

Yale, yoga and the battle over free speech on campus

By Neil Macdonald. In their book on treating depression and anxiety disorders, psychologists Robert Leahy, Stephen Holland and Lata McGinn list a condition they call "catastrophization". More...

18 décembre 2015

Valuable business lessons learned outside the classroom

Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy Jennifer Lewington. Growing up in small-town Ontario, 20-year-old Ben Canning thought he had his career plans set.
“I wanted to go to business school to make a whole bunch of money,” he says. Read more...
17 décembre 2015

Mythos und Wahrheit: Geisteswissenschaftler arbeiten als Taxifahrer, oder?

SPIEGEL ONLINEVon . "Literatur? Was willst du denn damit später machen?!" Geisteswissenschaftler, die solche Sprüche nie gehört haben, dürfen sich glücklich schätzen. Das gilt nicht nur für den Fachbereich Literatur, sondern auch für Germanistik und Geschichte, Sinologie und Niederlandistik, Theaterwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte. Mehr...

17 décembre 2015

An alle Wissenschaftler: So geht verständliche Sprache

SPIEGEL ONLINEVon Wolfgang Goede. Wenn Experten über ihr Fach sprechen oder schreiben, steigen Laien schnell aus. Dabei ist es für Wissenschaftler heute wichtiger denn je, ihre Erkenntnisse einem breiten Publikum zu vermitteln. Bloß wie? Zehn Tipps aus dem Hochschulmagazin "duz". Mehr...

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