By . In my public sector economics class at McGill University we’ve been talking, a little self-centredly, about rationales for subsidizing university education. A classic argument is that it generates “positive externalities.” An externality is a benefit or cost that’s not priced in a market. More...
By 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...
By Andy Blatchford. The head of one of Canada's largest banks says the country's post-secondary institutions are not producing enough graduates with the right skills to drive future economic growth.
CIBC chief executive Victor Dodig told The Canadian Press in an interview Tuesday that much of Canada's eventual growth will come from entrepreneurs who commercialize new ideas and technologies for all sectors of the economy. More...
By . A York University PhD student is being recognized for his breakthrough discovery that is helping us to better understand our own place in the universe — and that our Milky Way isn’t alone in being a “bully.”
George Conidis, a Toronto astrophysics student at the university, is being awarded the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation–PhD in Ottawa on Tuesday. More...
By The Globe and Mail. Winnipeg and Thunder Bay are two cities in which indigenous Canadians are particularly important – both in their major contributions and their tragedies. Read more...By Tiff MacKlem, Ajay Agrawal and Scott Bonham. Productivity growth is essential for improving a country’s standard of living. Unfortunately, Canada’s productivity growth chronically underperforms. Following a pickup in the late 1990s, we have languished for 15 years. Rising commodity prices temporarily made us wealthier and raised our standard of living, but this is not a sustainable path to wealth creation, as the recent downturn made clear. Read more...By 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...By Simona Chiose. Lisa Kerr, a law professor at Queen’s University, says she can’t imagine teaching criminal law without teaching aboriginal law. Read more...By Simona Chiose. The Ontario government must redesign the way it distributes $3.5-billion to the province’s universities to redress a decline in undergraduate education and demand clear and measurable learning outcomes, according to a series of recommendations that are expected to set the direction of the postsecondary sector for decades to come. Read more...By Simona Chiose. Ontario’s proposal to increase the portion of university funding tied to undergraduate learning outcomes could threaten the benefits students get from research and lead to fewer programs, the province’s universities warned in response to a report on the future of the sector released Wednesday. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
