Halifax's Saint Mary's University is offering a beginner conversational Arabic course for the public starting in January, in time for the arrival of Syrian refugees.
Teacher Muhammad Elhabibi says he hopes Nova Scotians might be willing to learn Arabic, a language common to many students and families who arrive here unable to speak English. More...

NSCAD's board of governors voted to increase tuition on Tuesday, but only for some full-time students.
The Halifax university will increase tuition by about 27 per cent over three years for students taking five classes or more per semester. More...

By Anna Maria Tremonti. Earning a PhD takes a lot of hard work and study and student loans, and it means spending extra years in school, after your peers have graduated and gone onto to the so-called "real world."
But a PhD comes with a tenure-track job, a respected professorship, a lifetime of rewarding, intellectual work in your chosen field. Or at least, that's how it was supposed to go. But many recently minted Canadian PhDs can tell you it certainly doesn't go that way. More...

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It's a big day for University of Saskatchewan professor Rainer Dick and indeed all theoretical physicists. 
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity has now been with us for 100 years, and while some people do understand what it actually means, for others it's an equation, and that's about it. More...

Eighty Arabic-speaking students and staff at University of Moncton responded to a call for interpreters to help with settling incoming refugee families.
The university appealed within its community for people who speak Arabic to offer their services to the Syrian refugees. More...