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Digital textbook deals spark controversy
Critics say automatic subscriptions to online course materials are a commercial cash grab that limits students’ choices.
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Students returning to campus want the ‘university experience’ missed during COVID-19
Universities need to offer planned socializing for students who entered programs after 2020 and are less likely to know other people in their cohort.
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U of Manitoba professor is helping kids explore their gender identity
Researcher Fenton Litwiller is developing youth recreation programming to support queer kids in acquiring skills that affirm their complex gender identities.
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A partnership with U of Ottawa’s med school aims to train more Inuit doctors
The collaboration between the university and the Government of Nunavut highlights the importance of culturally safe care.
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Finding your community in graduate school
You will need people, both inside and outside of the academy, to help you be successful and keep you grounded.
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How do you solve a problem like contract cheating?
It’s easier than ever for students to buy assignments. Until universities have better measures for rooting out this kind of cheating, professors are focusing on prevention.
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Canada’s medical residency system is leaving some graduates in limbo
A growing number of students, after years of study, aren’t getting the residency positions they need to become physicians.
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Experience is the best teacher
A response to the opinion article, “The rise of the experience industry on campus”.
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In defense of late papers
While we want to instil discipline and responsibility in our students, there is also pedagogical value in compassion.
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The rise of the experience industry on campus
Universities prioritize students’ personal satisfaction and positive experiences over their education.
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The push to bridge the school-work gap
Work-integrated learning grows in popularity at universities across the country.
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At Queen’s Prison Law Clinic, students go behind bars to help inmates
Students in a prison law clinical course offered by Queen’s University help federal inmates with legal grievances.
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The value of the op-ed as a writing assignment
Op-ed articles help students to learn the important skills of engaging and persuading a reader.
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Universities must innovate with a commitment to access, forum hears
Leaders from multiple sectors discussed universities of the future at Univation event in Ottawa.
