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BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | April 04 2011

Federation’s goal is to make highly relevant research better known.

At a time when humanities departments are under pressure the world over, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences – an umbrella group that acts as a national voice for these disciplines – is making the increased visibility of its scholars and their research a top priority. ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/humanities-and-social-science-scholars-need-more-visibility-cfhss/
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BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | May 02 2012

Blended-learning program to expand to more arts and science courses.

Hoping to enhance the learning experience of students in large classes, the faculty of arts and science at Queen’s University will broaden its offering of blended-learning courses this fall. Blended learning can take different forms but usually involves a combination of classroom instruction an...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/queens-experiments-with-mix-of-lectures-and-online-learning/
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BY PEGGY BERKOWITZ | August 14 2012

Panel unveils ambitious plan for student recruitment, international scholarships and marketing.

An advisory panel on Canada’s international education strategy appointed last fall by the federal government is calling for a “bold long-term strategy” including ambitious growth targets for international students, more scholarships for international students, and an international mobility pro...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/internationalization-helps-canadas-economy-and-trade/
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BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | January 30 2013

The company’s engineering director likes to recruit people with broad experience – and if you’re an alumnus of the University of Waterloo, that certainly won’t hurt.

networking] plus a number of smaller individual research awards. … We're trying to spend time with startups. We're trying to make sure we are available to them to talk about ideas or offer our advice or quite honestly take their advice about our products as well and find ways in which we can work ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/a-conversation-with-steven-woods-google-canada/
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BY OLIVIER ROBICHAUD | February 06 2013

A small but growing number of doctoral students are earning their degrees with supervision in two countries.

A new trend in doctoral studies is emerging on the Canadian university landscape. A growing number of doctoral students are choosing to study under a thesis supervisor at two universities – one in Canada and one abroad. The joint thesis supervision tends to go by its French name, cotutelle, and in...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/international-dual-phds-gain-popularity-especially-in-quebec/
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BY PEGGY BERKOWITZ | October 09 2013

Study offers wealth of data for education policy makers and stakeholders.

Canada came in close to average among the 22 countries that took part in a much-anticipated OECD study of adult skills in literacy, numeracy and computer literacy. Where Canada r...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canada-at-the-middle-of-the-pack-in-oecd-adult-skills-survey/
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BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | November 27 2013

New funding from Europe is available for Canadians in consortia including early-career researchers.

Canada and the European Commission have agreed to renew and expand a joint program that promotes collaboration among researchers in their countries in the area of science and technology. The project, known as ERA-Can Plus, is a joint initiative of the EC’s European Research Area and the Canadia...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/european-commission-expands-research-program-with-canada/
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BY SUZANNE BOWNESS | February 12 2014

Research into soldiers’ resilience shows promise for early detection of mental distress.

  Ibolja Cernak has listened to soldiers describe the explosive blasts of combat for her work. And she has heard the blasts herself, by living in the environment where they’re a regular occurrence. As Canada’s first academic to embed with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, she is now re...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/u-of-alberta-scholar-is-first-to-embed-with-canadian-forces-in-afghanistan/
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BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | November 12 2014

Canadian university leaders and government officials heard how collaboration is a key to successful R&D in those countries.

The longstanding ties between universities and industry in Israel and Germany have played a crucial role in fostering research and development in these high-tech and manufacturing powerhouses, speakers at a recent conference on innovation said. The conference, “Optimizing Canada’s innovation ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/israeli-german-universities-ottawa-talk-innovation/
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BY MARIE LAMBERT-CHAN | December 01 2014

Scheduled event took place days after three profs were denounced for sexual harassment.

Love affairs between teachers and students are as old as time. They are fodder for books, films and TV series -- and the university rumour mill. “Everyone knows it happens, but no one talks about it,” said Martine Delvaux, a professor in the literary studies department at Université du Québ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/symposium-uqam-shines-light-romantic-relationships-professors-students-2/
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BY TIM LOUGHEED | December 09 2015

Rebuilding trust and dialogue key themes at recent conference in Ottawa.

When it comes to how the new Canadian government should approach the research community, the way forward turns out to be “the long road back.” That was how former national science advisor Arthur Carty cast the challenge at the 7th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference held in Ottawa at the e...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/expectations-run-high-new-government-science-policy-conference/
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BY MARIE LAMBERT-CHAN | February 02 2016

Held at a convent north of Montreal, students spent hours writing in monastic silence.

As any graduate student can tell you, you need to be a paragon of discipline to write a thesis or dissertation. Amid the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it can be hard to force yourself to forget about Facebook and household tasks, and to write every day, alone in front of the computer. T...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/quebec-writing-retreat-forces-students-to-shut-up-and-write/
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BY ANQI SHEN | February 15 2017

A panel of university experts discuss the need for economic opportunity, flexible education and inclusive spaces for newcomers to Canada.

Reis Pagtakhan’s personal experience as a child of Filipino immigrants was watching uncles, aunts and cousins come to Canada in the 1970s. They were able to find good jobs that they kept until retirement. An immigration lawyer now, Mr. Pagtakhan helps his clients navigate a newer system, whose pol...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/opening-canadas-doors-time-global-turmoil/
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BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | June 07 2017

The province is stepping up efforts to attract more students and entice them to stay after graduating.

At the turn of the millennium, Maha Berechid was attending a French-language high school in Morocco and dreaming of studying at a foreign university. She soon settled on Montreal. “I wanted to study in French, in a reputable university,” she says. “Montreal is a safe, calm, affordable city wit...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/quebec-government-attempts-woo-international-students/
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BY MARK CARDWELL | February 08 2018

“All of us are very supportive when it comes to helping our students reach their athletic goals,” says one dean.

Four years ago, Continue reading, who was then in his second year of the dentistry program at Université Laval, remembers being nervous when he went to see each of his professors to tell them he’d made Canada’s national speed-skat...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/olympic-bound-athletes-rely-kindness-professors/
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BY DIANE PETERS | February 22 2018

On the 10th anniversary of the first massive open online course, they are more numerous than ever.

In 2008, University of Manitoba professors Stephen Downes and George Siemens taught a course on learning theory that was attended by about 25 paying students in class and by another 2,300 students online for free. Colleague Dave Cormier at the University of Prince Edward Island dubbed the experiment...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/moocs-not-dead-evolving/
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BY DIANE PETERS | February 23 2018

Dix ans après leur création, ils sont plus nombreux que jamais et continuent d’évoluer.

En 2008, Stephen Downes et George Siemens, professeurs à l’Université du Manitoba, ont donné un cours sur la théorie de l’apprentissage qui a été suivi en classe par environ 25 étudiants payants et en ligne par 2 300 étudiants non payants. Dave Cormier, leur collègue de l’Unive...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/les-cours-en-ligne-ouverts-tous-sont-loin-detre-morts/
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BY ANQI SHEN | February 28 2018

An injection of $3 billion for research and expressed support for the “next generation of researchers” figures prominently in the federal budget.

The federal government has made what it calls the largest funding increase ever to fundamental research in Canada in its Continue reading on Feb. 27. Among many items, the government has committed $1.7 billion over five years to tri-council...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/budget-2018-gives-major-boost-fundamental-research-canada/
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BY SPARROW MCGOWAN | May 15 2018

The initiative builds on a pilot project in Nova Scotia to combat the region’s shrinking and aging population.

International students Taruna Boodhun and Khousmita Gopaul started at the University of Prince Edward Island in 2016. They both chose PEI partly because it was an island, like their home country of Mauritius. While they experienced some adjustments, in particular adapting to different foods and the ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/expanded-program-aims-to-keep-international-students-in-atlantic-canada/
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BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | August 14 2018

An interview with the committee’s inaugural chair, SSHRC president Ted Hewitt.

Last October, the federal government announced the creation of the Continue reading “to improve collaboration among the granting councils and CFI (the Canada Foundation for Innovation) to the benefit of researchers ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/the-canada-research-coordinating-committee-gets-into-gear/
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