By The Globe and Mail. The news that two publicly funded Ontario colleges are operating men-only campuses in Saudi Arabia feels wrong at first glance. Read more...By Jordan Press. Facing higher than average unemployment and a growing threat of bankruptcy, post-secondary students are lobbying the federal government this month for billions in new spending to help cover the cost of university and college education. Read more...By David Johnston. I was born in the town of Copper Cliff, now a part of Sudbury, a city famous for its minerals and for being the site of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) training missions in the early 1970s. Read more...By Simona Chiose. More PhDs are finding jobs as tenure-track professors than previous labour market estimates have found, says a new study that will add some much-missing data to a continuing debate about whether Canada is producing too many doctoral graduates. Read more...By Simona Chiose. The University of British Columbia’s deans have come out in support of the university’s current leadership and the search process for a new president, writing an op-ed that will appear in local newspapers on Thursday morning. Read more...By Simona Chiose. Ontario voters are not willing to consider paying higher taxes to support postsecondary education and don’t believe the issue of professors increasingly teaching on contract is a high priority, a new poll has found. Read more...
By Elizabeth McMillan. The number of full-time undergraduates majoring in humanities is down 45 per cent over the past decade. When those numbers are combined with general arts students — people who haven't declared their arts major yet — it's a 39 per cent decrease across the region according to data provided by the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission. More...
By Andrea Bellemare. Wilfrid Laurier University's board of governors voted Wednesday night to withdraw from an agreement to put statues of 22 of Canada's past prime ministers at the school, months after the school first announced it would go ahead with the controversial project. More...
By Times Colonist. Here is a contrast in values we should consider. Tuition fees at the University of Victoria for a degree in the humanities stand at about $24,000. The comparable fee at public universities in Germany is zero.
The University of British Columbia charges approximately $29,000 for a commerce degree. Undergraduate programs at many state-run universities in France cost $1,000. More...
By Patricia Crowe. The discussion started at my book club, but it might as well have started with Adam and Eve. We read The Awakening, a 1899 novel by Kate Chopin that describes the fight by a young woman, Edna Pontellier, for independence against the conventions of the time. We are all married working mothers. No matter how far society has come from Edna’s, most of us find the bulk of child care and the more banal duties of running a household fall to us. We felt for Edna. More...
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