He was addressing the valedictory function of the V P Deenadayalu Naidu's centenary celebrations(file) BENGALURU: Urging teachers to teach students morals, values and ethics, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday advised educational institutions to make social service mandatory for their wards. "Make social service or service to armed forces or voluntary organisations like National Service Scheme ...
Institute at Macdonald Campus to be renamed in honour of Margaret A. Gilliam McGill University alumna Margaret A Gilliam has donated $5M to the university’s Institute for Global Food Security. A release states that the donation will help faculty and student researchers understand the root causes of global hunger, and to develop novel solutions for food insecurity ...
"Our participation in this project is perfectly in line with our promise to develop 12,000 affordable and social housing units over the next years," Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says The City of Montreal will contribute $1.6M to a proposed 90-unit student housing co-op, triple its investment when the project was first announced in 2017, reports the Montreal ...
Simon Fraser University and Fraser Health have unveiled the SFU ImageTech Lab, a world-class clincial research facility that SFU states is the first-of-its-kind in Western Canada. The facility will advance brain and body research and will help to ensure British Columbia is globally competitive in advanced brain and body imaging. “The SFU ImageTech Lab adds ...
Chris Busch, associate vice-president of enrolment management at the University of Windsor is working to set up a recruitment office in India to attract more international students. DAN JANISSE / WINWP The University of Windsor is in the process of creating its first foreign student recruitment office, with the plan to place the office in India. “The idea is ...
A $50M investment from the Government of Alberta will provide 400 additional seats for technology students throughout the province, reports CTV News. The announcement has followed the creation of the Talent Advisory Council on Technology, a 16-person working group that advises the province on the growing demands of the tech industry. “Alberta’s tech sector is growing quickly, ...
The University of the Fraser Valley has announced that it is launching the Food and Agriculture Institute. The new institute will foster food security through the study of sustainable agricultural land use and the development of applied research capacity. “I look forward to working with faculty to build on UFV’s ongoing success in the areas ...
Simon Fraser University has launched a new Professional Master’s Program in Visual Computing that the school says is the first of its kind in Canada. “Our curriculum will focus on computer graphics, computer vision, human-computer interaction and visualization,” says program director Hao (Richard) Zhang. “These technical skills can then be applied to areas such as AR/VR/MR, design ...
A new engineering building is located in Founders' Square, between the Parker and Fraser buildings at Laurentian University. (Erik White/CBC) Laurentian University has opened the $30M Cliff Fielding Research, Innovation, and Engineering Building. The building houses a collaborative research hub, an innovation and commercialization space, a state-of-the-art facility for industry and scholars, engineering labs, and includes space ...
Hélène David, Quebec’s Higher Education Minister, has announced a $1.5B funding boost for QC’s university network over the next six years, in addition to $6.3M for smaller universities. According to the Montreal Gazette, the investment amounts to an 11.3% increase from 2016-17. The Gazette also states that the province has deregulated international tuition, a move that will impact ...
A Nova Scotia pilot program designed to recruit and retain international students is being expanded across Atlantic Canada. In September, the Study and Stay Program will reportedly launch in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island. “There are two key activities that are going to happen with the initiative. The first is attracting and recruiting ...
L’Université du Québec en Outaouais has announced the launch of the upcoming Centre d’excellence en cybersécurité. The Centre, which will receive $750K from the province, is part of an initiative by a non-profit initiative consisting of 23 partners in digital technology research and innovation. UQO Rector Denis Harrisson stated that the Centre accompanies the university’s efforts ...
CBC has learned that the Saskatchewan government has allocated $21M for the Saskatchewan Student Aid fund, $18.6M less than its 2011-12 amount. University of Regina student Julian Wotherspoon told CBC that the province is “squeezing [students] with financial aid and then they're squeezing the university with operational grants and other funding.” The SK Ministry of ...
Humber College and Cisco have reportedly teamed up in a $4M IT infrastructure initiative. A Humber release states that in addition to internships and employment opportunities, the partnership will support the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation. The Centre will help small- and mid-level businesses incorporate automation technologies and data exchange into manufacturing. “By working with ...
Brock University’s Goodman School of Business has announced that it has been re-accredited by Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Ontario for the master’s level. Brock states that the result of the accreditation is a redesigned Master of Accountancy program that would enable Bachelor of Accounting graduates to obtain a master’s degree and fulfil CPA education requirements ...
Red Deer College has reportedly received approval to launch a four-year Bachelor of Applied Arts in Animation and Visual Effects in September 2018. “This is a historic day for our College, as this is the first four-year degree that we fully offer at RDC, and it’s a tremendous step in our journey to becoming a ...
University of Guelph researchers have received more than $800K from the provincial governments of Alberta and Ontario for projects ranging from improving nutrition and reducing methane emissions in dairy cattle to value chain genomics. The funding comes from the Alberta-Ontario Innovation Program, a cross-provincial collaboration that brings together industry and academia to solve key industry ...
Citing Carleton University as “a leading light” for accessible education, Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi has announced the creation of the David C Onley Initiative for Employment and Enterprise Development initiative. A Carleton release states that the two-year, $5M program will provide mentorship for entrepreneurial development, employment support, and one-on-one coaching for students with disabilities. ...
A new report released by the Province of Ontario calls on universities to make international fees more transparent, reports the Globe and Mail. While the province has capped domestic tuition increases at 3% per year, no such cap is said to exist for international students. Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development Mitzie Hunter stated ...
