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A marine engineering course which incorporated a virtual shipyard in the online world of Second Life won an award for excellence and innovation in the use of learning technology by the Canadian Network for Innova...
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Hard Rock Medical follows a group of medical students at a fictional school in Northern Ontario.
While spending time in Sudbury, Ontario, over several years to shoot a television series, Derek Diorio would listen to local CBC radio and noticed that the two things they always talked about were natural resources and health care issues. On the latter, one day Mr. Diorio heard an interview with som...
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Ranking of 48 countries, organized by Universitas 21, looks at various measures of what constitutes a “good” educational system.
While there are any number of well-regarded global rankings of universities and colleges, these don't reveal anything about national systems of higher education and the environment which different countries provide for their institutions and students. Given the significance of higher education in ec...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canada-places-third-in-new-international-ranking-of-higher-ed-systems/
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Scholars who feared for their lives in their home country have a chance to resume their careers.
This coming fall, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa will be home to Canada’s first jointly hosted Scholars at Risk program. The Scholars at Risk (or SAR) network connects postsecondary institutions worldwide that harbour and support scholars whose work has placed them in danger. Sin...
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Academics Without Borders is no longer without a headquarters. Concordia University announced in October that it will house the non-governmental organization on its downtown Montreal campus. Working extensively with postsecondary institutions in the developing world – 14 different countries since ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/academics-without-borders-finds-a-home-at-concordia-university/
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Multidisciplinary group based at Dalhousie University plans to track subjects into adulthood to see what strategies lead to success.
In November 2015, Canada announced it would accept 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year, with more to follow in 2016. Thanks partially to the tragic images of three-year-old Continue reading washed up on the shore of the Mediterranea...
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network made its Canadiana collections open to the public on January 1.
As of January 1, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network has made its Canadiana collections – the largest online collections of early textual artifacts pertaining to Canadian culture – fully accessible to the public at no charge.
Based on the historical and public significance of the collecti...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/over-60-million-pages-of-digitized-canadian-heritage-documents-now-accessible/
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J-Schools Canada, a network for journalism educators and program administrators, will have its first meeting at the Canadian Communication Association conference at Congress in June.
Journalism programs from postsecondary schools across Canada have joined together to create Continue reading, an organization meant to promote Canadian journalism education and collaboration among programs.
Susan Harada, associate director of Carleton Uni...
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networking as well as surviving and thriving in grad school. Register for free on Memorial’s Continue reading website.
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December 23, 2020
COVID-19 cases on campus
The University of Windsor has another three cases of COVID-19 to report. These new cases are unrelated to previously reported cases. Since the start of December, the university has reported eight new cases in its community. The Wi...
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March 31, 2021
Don’t gather over Easter
As most universities prepare to close for Good Friday, public health authorities (as well as https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/covid-19-updates-for-march-2021/
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April 28, 2021
Atlantic universities under lockdown
The Continue reading is reporting an outbreak at its Magee House residence. ...
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The 10-year-long project adds bike lanes, racks, showers to incentivize students, staff and faculty to step away from car culture.
Up until recently, cycling at Western University was seen as a seasonal practice by faculty administrators, epitomized by the bike racks across campus that had become the favourite dumping grounds for snow ploughs during the frozen winter months. But over the past five years, that mindset has change...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/westerns-open-space-strategy-makes-cycling-safe-year-round/
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The podcast features frank discussions on navigating academic work as a woman, a racialized scholar and a person traditionally underrepresented in higher education.
In the academic workplace, the burden of emotional and administrative labour often disproportionately falls on the shoulders of women and people of colour. This systemic issue isn’t unique to universities in Canada, but as recent rese...
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Over the last few months, several Canadian postsecondary institutions have issued policies or recommendations regarding the social media app.
In December, the company behind TikTok admitted that it had used the social media app to spy on American journalists in an attempt to identify their sources.
“[TikTok] moved on and they announced that this was wrong, and policies will be [made], and it will not be repeated,” explained Nur Zin...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/tiktok-canadian-universities-take-a-stand/
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The three options proposed concerning small French-language universities in the report have been rejected by academic stakeholders.
Some recommendations in the recent blue ribbon panel report, Continue reading, were met with a chilly reception from the Franco-Ont...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/blue-ribbon-panel-report-misses-the-mark-for-francophones-in-ontario/
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People on the Move
Angelique EagleWoman is set to become the first Aboriginal woman to ...
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Canada’s universities should build on what they’ve already created.
Current times of fiscal restraint call for creativity, increased cooperation and flexibility. Rather than build new institutions and establish hierarchies which stifle innovation, it is time for Ontario and Canada to seek ways to support existing institutions, to encourage them to create viable netw...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/improve-the-wheel-dont-reinvent-it/
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They face different challenges than mature or international students.
networking and informal learning opportunities on campus if she has to rush home to pick up the kids from daycare or carry out the host of jobs associated with parenting? How does the immigrant student stop feeling guilty for not “being there” for their family, especially when the family has alr...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/immigrant-student-parents-are-a-group-apart/
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