The Higher Education Summit—one of Canada’s premier conferences on postsecondary education—takes place November 23 and 24 at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto. The conference, run by Colleges Ontario, explores the major issues facing the country today and how those issues affect colleges and universities. Featured speakers this year include former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, astronaut ...
Sault College has announced that it will move its peace and conflict studies program to Toronto; in addition, it has signed an MOU with Collège Boréal to offer a French delivery option for the program. Sault President Ron Common said that moving the program to Toronto will provide students with “access to a wider array ...
Queen’s University officially opened the new Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday. The new $63 M, 80,000 square-foot facility features a 560-seat concert hall, a 150-seat “black box” studio theatre, an art gallery, a screening room, and rehearsal space. It will serve as the new home for the university’s fine arts, film and media, ...
Wilfrid Laurier University has announced an agreement to acquire Market Square, a 360,000 square-foot facility in downtown Brantford. Per its agreement with the City of Brantford, WLU will purchase the space for $5.8 M with payment to come in the form of 7.5 years of free rent for the portion of the facility currently occupied ...
As 14,000 Indians receive Canadian study permits this year, there is a change in their course choices, too, say Elisa Tortola and Marc Bavin, director and assistant director, respectively, of the CIS universities tour. The increasing interest of Indians choosing Canada as a post-secondary study destination is evidenced by the 15% increase (year-todate) in study permit ...
NEW DELHI: Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are ranked fourth on a list of 50 best entrepreneurial undergraduate institutes in the world, HRD minister Smriti Irani said on Friday.The ranking was compiled by PitchBook Data, a US-based private equity and venture capital research firm. Sharing the achievement at an AICTE conclave on 'entrepreneurship education', Irani said ...
PATNA: External affairs ministerSushmaSwaraj, on Friday, inaugurated the revived Nalanda University, renowned as acentre for learning till it was burned down 800 years ago by an invading Turkish army. Swaraj said it was a matter of pride for her to inaugurate the academic session of the university after a gap of over 800 years. "I am really upbeat that I ...
Students in British Columbia will be returning to class on Monday after 86% of the province’s teachers voted to accept a 6-year agreement with the provincial government. The deal includes a 7.25% wage increase, a one-time “signing bonus,” more jobs for teachers, improvements to benefits, allowances for preparation time for elementary school teachers, and a raise ...
The Master of Management (MMgt) degree, already popular in Europe, is becoming increasingly popular in Canada, reports the Globe and Mail. The program differs from the more common MBA in that the MMgt is directed at students from non-business academic backgrounds and does not require job experience. The Sauder School of Business at UBC, home of ...
Alberta’s new Minister of Innovation and Advanced Education, Donald Scott, has pledged to restore the funding to PSE institutions that was cut in the 2013 budget. The province has already restored $82.5 M of the $147 M that was cut in 2013, although some suggest that the funding was not allocated fairly. Scott told Metro News that his ...
Quebec’s PSE institutions are bracing themselves for looming cuts to the provincial budget for education. QC Premier Phillippe Couillard recently said that the province’s financial situation is worse than had been anticipated. “Instead of a deficit of $1.75 billion for 2014–15, we are facing a deficit of $5.8 billion. So we have to make a major effort ...
The Yukon government has committed $6.3 M to Yukon College’s Yukon Research Centre. The funding will support and increase collaborative research, innovation, and outreach programs focused on climate change, cold climate innovation, environmental science, society and culture, and technology innovation. The funding will be distributed over 5 years, and is in addition to recent capital ...
The University of Alberta's endowment fund has for the first time surpassed the $1 B mark. The fund's growth was driven by strong investment returns and recent significant donations. “The engagement, advocacy, and generosity of our supporters will benefit generations to come, and I want to thank our donors for their contribution to our community,” ...
The council of the University of Saskatchewan has voted to rescind the institution’s “Vision 2025: From Spirit to Action” mission statement. Council member Howard Woodhouse, an education professor who voted in favour of rescinding the mission statement, said that Vision 2025 “was written by technocrats, and it’s going to inspire nobody. It’s an uninspiring, flawed, ...
The Toronto Star reports that Canada’s federal government has admitted to monitoring as many as 800 demonstrations and events over the last 8 years, including public lectures, protests, and rallies at PSE institutions. The reports, collected by the Government Operations Centre (GOC), include briefs prepared by CSIS as well as the RCMP that focus on First Nations' ...
A new report sheds light on how Edmonton’s PSE institutions are meeting the demands of local employers. According to the report, businesses are increasingly demanding specialized skills from new employees. However, even as new graduates are seen as being technically capable, businesses say they lack “soft” skills such ascommunication, decision-making, critical thinking, and teamwork. One ...
The University of Toronto is once again the top university in Canada, according to the latest QS World University Rankings. uToronto slipped a few spots, however, to come in at 20th overall, only one spot ahead of McGill University, at 21st. This is only the second year since the rankings began in 2004 that uToronto ranked higher ...
Annual giving professionals will gather at Ryerson University on October 23rd and24th for the 4th Canadian Higher Education Annual Giving Congress. The Congress will provide annual giving professionals of all levels of experience an opportunity to share knowledge, best practices, and successful strategies, as well as to collaborate on solving common challenges. Attendees will also hear ...
The University of Toronto Mississauga is celebrating the official opening of Deerfield Hall, the first phase of the redevelopment of the campus’ North Building. The 4-storey building features improved theatre rehearsal space, computer labs, classrooms, formal and informal study space, and an expanded food services area. The building will also house offices and research facilities for the ...
UBC has published its flexible learning strategy. The strategy document identifies a series of trends that have informed its creation. These include changing expectations of students and employers, demographic shifts such as the increasing proportion of older and international students, government policies that have increased universities' reliance on tuition revenue, and an increased emphasis on the measured value of ...
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