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Students, researchers and charitable organizations are mobilizing to find solutions to improve food security.
Canada’s newest Nobel laureate discusses the challenges of explaining her work, dealing with the sudden attention, and what to say to the Queen of Sweden.
Pseudo-science “erodes our critical thinking, and that might be the most serious damage in the long run,” says one professor.
But medical students say the problem is still likely to get worse if the ratio of residency spots to applicants doesn’t increase.
The federal government wants to bring a pilot version of the U.K. charter to Canada to promote equity and inclusion in research.
The Science Meets Parliament event will take place on Parliament Hill to coincide with annual science policy conference in Ottawa.
Across Canada, several big-city universities are building student residences through a variety of partnerships with private developers.
Such evaluations can’t be used for tenure and promotion decisions, arbitrator rules in case involving Ryerson University.
A pooled plan, with an estimated $8 billion in assets, would allow for greater flexibility in terms of investments.
“It’s not as simple as saying we’ll just let people smoke wherever they want on campus,” says one administrator.
Colleges seeking university status aren’t just looking to change their institutions – they’re aiming to change what a university can be.
Quebec needs more teaching graduates to respond to growing K-12 enrolment; meanwhile, the rest of Canada is also looking for French-speaking teachers.
For the last three years, the university has been sending newly minted doctors to this isolated territory to practise rural and remote medicine.
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.
Ontario universities came under the provincial ombudsman’s oversight in 2016. The office has since received more than 500 university-related complaints.
“When we noticed that people were using university or grant money for these conferences, we had to put a stop to it,” said one department chair.
On the 10th anniversary of the first massive open online course, they are more numerous than ever.
Using publicly available information, the study has compiled employment data on 88 percent of the university’s PhD graduates from 2000 to 2015.
University consortium partners with Beijing to remove barriers for Canadians to study there.
This latest overhaul of the NRC aims to boost engagement, restore lost morale.