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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 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 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 | 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 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/