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19 décembre 2015

Teaching assistants like me? Here’s what could change

By Lester Lusher. From 1995 to 2012, the rate of college completion in the United States has steadily fallen relative to other developed countries. Over this short period of time, the US went from having the highest young-adult college completion rate among OECD countries to 19th. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Does a shorter week help kids with their learning?

By Mary Beth Walker. Across the US many public school districts have considered the option of schedule change as a way to manage budget cuts and reallocations. A surprising number of schools, especially in the western United States, have adopted just such a policy. In most cases, students in these schools now attend school Monday through Thursday. More...

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19 décembre 2015

US: community colleges aim to scoop pathway demand

By Sara Custer. Community colleges across the US are stepping up efforts to attract international students amid the flurry of pathway programme growth in the country. More...

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19 décembre 2015

US: three-quarters of first time graduate enrolees on master’s path

By Sara Custer. Master’s degree seeking students made up more than three-quarters of first time international graduate school enrolments in the US in 2015, data from the Council of Graduate Studies has shown. Indian and Chinese students share the greatest proportion of enrolments at this degree level, 36% each. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Niches and Strategic Partnerships: Central to Success for Smaller Institutions

By Martin Tadlock - EvoLLLution. Today’s higher education marketplace presents some unique and significant challenges for smaller colleges and universities, especially those that are publicly funded. Plummeting state revenues, criticism over tuition rates and an expectation from students for “more” have combined with a range of other factors to create a difficult scenario for institutional leaders. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Domestic Institutions Remain Top Priority as Northeastern Enters Ontario Market

By Reza Moridi - EvoLLLution. Northeastern University recently announced its plan to launch its first international branch campus next year in Toronto, the first non-Canadian university to offer degree programs in Ontario without a local partner. More...

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18 décembre 2015

CIHR cancels funding program that helped bring science discoveries to market

By Elizabeth Payne. A program that helped Ottawa scientist Jean-Simon Diallo take potentially life-saving research from his lab to the commercial world is being shut down by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
The small Proof of Principle program is the latest focus of criticism about reforms at the billion-dollar federal health research funding agency. More...

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18 décembre 2015

Canada must seize opportunity to be a leader in artificial intelligence

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...

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18 décembre 2015

Ontario funding must address decline in undergraduate experience: report

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...

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18 décembre 2015

The research challenge Canada faces

By Ivan Semeniuk. Justin Trudeau’s newly minted minister tells Ivan Semeniuk that her government ‘believes in science,’ but reviving Canadian research will take much more than faith. Read more...

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