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19 avril 2014

No jobs in academe? Consider becoming a scientist-entrepreneur

By Jonathan Thon. I was recently invited to give a keynote address at the Human Disease Mapping conference at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland that was fully coordinated by a small group of the college’s PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. The scope was to share my experience and story of my academic career in a period where the global financial and humanitarian crisis is affecting young scientists’ hopes of doing what they love most – science. Read more...

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19 avril 2014

Transition Q & A: Emily Simmons

By Jennifer Polk - From PhD to Life. What did you hope for in terms of employment as you completed your PhD?
A few days after my defence I started to search for communications and writing jobs. I was still emotionally drained. I remember becoming immediately overwhelmed realizing that other people had been professionalizing themselves into this field for years. I had to go for a walk to clear my head, and then I promptly abandoned the idea. I didn’t realize it then, but academia was like a bad relationship, and that was my first attempt to break-up. More...

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19 avril 2014

Of course we need varsity sport

By Richard Price. Athletics connect universities with their communities and fosters healthier, better educated citizens. Todd Pettigrew in his recent opinion article in University Affairs argues that universities should get rid of varsity sport. As a former varsity athlete and current faculty member who remains engaged in and supportive of sport at universities, I am responding with some of the reasons why I disagree with his position. More...

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19 avril 2014

EGirls conference pulls back the curtain on teen selfies, sexting and social media practices

By Tara Siebarth. EGirls conference pulls back the curtain on teen selfies, sexting and social media practices
Girls’ online experiences likened to “sitting on a powder keg.”
“Oh my God, Jason just texted me. Should I go home with him? I guess I took a good selfie.”
While these lyrics, from the dance song “#Selfie”, may seem ridiculous to those of us over 30, the lyrics describe how teens and tweens communicate in their social media/hashtag world. More...

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19 avril 2014

Newfoundland pledges to eliminate student loans

By Rosanna Tamburri. Province’s per-student funding among the highest in the country. The governments of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia announced changes recently to their student financial aid programs, with Newfoundland becoming the first province pledging to eliminate loans entirely in favour of non-repayable grants by next year. Nova Scotia is eliminating its interest on student loans but at the same time is revoking a tax rebate for graduates who live and work in the province. More...

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19 avril 2014

Desire2Learn, U of Guelph will try to measure learning outcomes

By Rosanna Tamburri. The University of Guelph is teaming up with four other postsecondary institutions and Desire2Learn (D2L), a provider of learning management systems, to develop a way to track and assess student learning outcomes across programs. More...

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19 avril 2014

Opinion: Quebec’s universities need stronger private support

By Randall Kelly. We are accustomed, in Quebec, to thinking about our universities as public trusts: they receive both their charters and the lion’s share of their annual budget from the provincial government. In some fundamental respects, they are instruments of the public — educating our youth, advancing the aspirations of our society, creating knowledge and bringing that thinking into the wider world. More...

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19 avril 2014

Sweet tuition deal for Quebec university students

By Karen Seidman. More value on education than other jurisdictions, research shows. Quebec students’ hard-fought battle to keep tuition fees low means that the province’s university students have to work significantly fewer hours at minimum wage jobs than their counterparts across the country to pay for their education, according to new interactive research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). More...

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19 avril 2014

Brain drain challenges First Nation communities across Canada

By Ally Quinney, Elizabeth Hames, CBC News. Young people are leaving aboriginal communities in large numbers, and most have no plans to return.
John Gladstone perches in his captain's chair above a gaggle of tourists as they board his ferry to downtown Vancouver. He casually steers the boat through the kayakers, and cormorants that crowd the narrow channel. He can make this trip with his eyes closed. More...

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19 avril 2014

University students work twice as long to earn tuition as 1972 counterparts

By Louise Brown. New figures from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows students must work two to seven times as many hours as their parents to pay for tuition. The average university student in Ontario has to work almost 18 weeks at minimum wage to pay for one year of the average tuition of $7,259 — about twice as long as their parents would have had to work in 1972, say new figures from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). A stark interactive map of Canada released Tuesday by the CCPA shows the number of weeks, months and — in deregulated professional programs like dentistry and medicine — years that students have to work to afford higher learning across Canada, which has the highest tuition in the country. More...

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