By Jodi Helmer. In 2016, news outlets across the nation reported several accidents and inconveniences in private student housing developments. More...
30 août 2016
30 août 2016
Colleges experiment with engaging alumni of online programs
By Roxanne Shiels. As growing numbers of students pursue degrees online, a new constituency in higher education is being created: alumni who have completed their studies without setting foot on campus. More...
30 août 2016
Quality assurance | The global debate about whether unis are good enough
How can we be confident universities are doing a good job? This issue of quality assurance in higher education is stirring up heated debates all around the world. During the last few months, my mailbox has been bursting with critical articles about quality assurance and barely a day goes by without a higher education newsletter or website reporting on such critical analyses and on new policy initiatives. More...
30 août 2016
New partnership with the Chinese Higher Education Evaluation Center
U-Multirank is further expanding the breadth of universities in its web tool (www.umultirank.org) by partnering with the Chinese Higher Education Evaluation Center (HEEC) of the Ministry of Education. The U-Multirank consortium, represented by project leader, Professor Frank Ziegele and the HEEC’s director general, Professor Wu Yan signed an agreement to launch a pilot project to bring Chinese universities into U-Multirank. More...
30 août 2016
Measures that Matter | Overall learning experience
Why do students pick one university rather than another?
Obviously they want the university that’s best for them. That means something different to each student, which is why U-Multirank makes it possible for users to rank universities their own way. More...
30 août 2016
Behind the Scenes | Introducing Push
For students, choosing the right university involves balancing many different factors – cost, location and lifestyle, as well as the course, the academic reputation and the entry requirements. For over 20 years, UK-based organisation Push has been helping students to strike the right balance.
Push created a web tool, the Uni Chooser, to allow students to say what factors matter to them and how much, and then get a personalised shortlist of UK unis, ranked according to their own preferences. The tool lets users use over 200 criteria and, as well as helping students work out the best university for them, the Uni Chooser helps students appreciate the many ways that unis differ and what might end up being important to them. More...
30 août 2016
Study finds that massive, prehistoric bears may have gone extinct because they were vegan
By . For hundreds of thousands of years, relatives of common European brown bears roamed from Northern Spain in the west to Russia’s Ural mountains in the east. The beasts were huge — 1.7 metres tall at the shoulder, and 3.7 metres long — but unlike today’s bears, the Ursus spelaeus, more commonly known as a cave bear, was vegan, and that may be why, 25,000 years ago, it went extinct. More...
30 août 2016
City of Waterloo backs student concerns over housing
By Paige Desmond. Waterloo council agreed to back students concerned they're being taken advantage of by developers.
"The current climate of student housing in Waterloo is a little bit alarming," Sarah Wiley told councillors Monday.
Wiley is vice-president of education for the University of Waterloo Federation of Students, which represents undergraduate students at the school.
She said students are a vulnerable population being abused and manipulated in the student housing market. More...
30 août 2016
What's wrong with a little sponsorship?
By Evan Osenton. At the University of Calgary you can attend classes in the Canadian Natural Resources Limited Engineering Complex. Lectures are given in the ConocoPhillips, Progress Energy and Encana theatres. You can take books out of a Petro-Canada sponsored library. And when you need a break—perhaps from oil and gas logos—you can relax in the BMO Financial Group Forum (a.k.a. some couches at the end of Scurfield Hall). More...
30 août 2016
The federal government needs to give clarity on health research funding
In the carrot and stick that is government funding, the federal Liberals have been talking nice about science and research, while proposed reforms have irked researchers and funding has dried up, leading to layoffs or closures in dozens of labs across the country. More...
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