By . Alberta’s stagnant economy has post-secondary institutions scrambling to retain existing donors and encourage new ones.
Reported gifts, contributions and fundraising dropped 35 per cent — $352 million — between 2015 and 2016, with many of the province’s colleges the hardest hit.
Having survived the May wildfire that devastated Fort McMurray and with oilsands companies struggling with slumping oil prices, Keyano College is facing a tough start to the academic year. More...
It’s hard to believe the Experimental Lakes Area research facility near Kenora was placed on the federal government’s chopping block in the 2012 budget. The collection of 58 lakes gave scientists from around the world access to a pristine ecosystem where they could conduct key research into the effects on lakes of acid rain, mercury, phosphates, climate change, and even synthetic hormones in birth control pills found in sewage. More...
By Ellie Bothwell. Just 17 per cent of the world’s top 200 universities are led by a woman, according to an analysis of Times Higher Education World University Rankings data.
Only 33 of the top 200 universities in the 2015-16 ranking are female-led and two women hold acting leader positions. More...
On Thursday, the college said it plans to pull out of the country before the start of the new school year.
The Ottawa-based post-secondary institution began operating a men-only campus in Jazan, on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern coast, in 2013. It was part of a five-year deal with a Saudi government agency. More...
By . Canada’s top judge says the best way to one day see an aboriginal person named to the Supreme Court of Canada is for governments to appoint more indigenous judges to lower courts. More...
By Heidi Ulrichsen. A couple that recently graduated with teaching degrees from Laurentian University will be spending the next two years teaching in a fly-in First Nations community in Northwestern Ontario. More...
A University of Waterloo study has found there is a wage gap between male and female faculty members. It’s done the right thing by giving female professors a raise, but the wrong thing in not making it retroactive and not researching the root causes of the gap. More...
By Richard Watts. A new literature is arising, born in the refugee experience of dislocation instead of geographically stable cultures, a Vancouver Island University English professor says. More...
By Dale Carruthers. Fleeing their war-torn village in Syria, Nineb Yousef and his sister Ninwe left their family, friends, home and middle-class life behind.
But the siblings made sure to pack their high school transcripts, knowing the documents would be their ticket to a better future in Canada.
Ten months later and more than 9,000 kilometres travelled, Nineb and Ninwe are two of 10 Syrian refugees selected for all-expenses-paid scholarships at Western University. More...
By Joe McCarthy. Going to college can feel like living in a bubble — you’re usually surrounded by like-minded people, you take a range of theoretical classes, your needs are, for the most part, met without much effort, and you’re not always connected to issues in the broader society. More...
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