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July 24, 2017"We have to move to an urbanism for all if we want to tap the full talent of all people," says Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and professor of business and creativity, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto What does...
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July 10, 2017The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee launching the SWAYAM, 32 SWAYAM Prabha DTH Channels and National Academic Depository, at the National Convention on Digital Initiatives, organised by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, in New Delhi on July 09, 2017. The Union Minister for Human...
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July 5, 2017Young Indian women who have passed international English exams are sought after by families desperate to get their sons into western countries to work and eventually immigrate. Media outlets in India reportedly state that there is a “booming matrimony market” for international students who can...
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June 27, 2017New Delhi: The HRD Ministry will soon call a meeting of officials from CBSE and 32 other boards to discuss the way forward on scrapping of the moderation policy. Moderation policy refers to a practice in which students get extra marks in subjects regarded 'unusually...
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June 19, 2017Dr. Rajinder Singh Bawa, the Vice-Chancellor of Chandigarh University, shakes hands with the U of L's Dr. Andy Hakin, Provost and Vice-President (Academic), following the signing ceremony. The University of Lethbridge has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chandigarh University in India that commits the...
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June 12, 2017The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay has broken into the top 200 club in the latest edition of the ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings’, to join IIT-Delhi and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, in this group. With this, India, for the first...
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July 25, 2017“As an academic administrator … I often worry about losing touch with the core business of the university: teaching and research,” writes Queen’s University Principal Daniel Woolf, who reflects on the ways in which he has tried to remain involved with teaching and research...
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July 21, 2017From left to right: David Iremadze, Director of Graduate Business Studies; Dave Twynam, former Dean of the Faculty of Management; Glynis Steen, Dean of the Faculty of Trades and Applied Technology; and Tracy Gillis, Accounting Professor, have all had a hand in developing the...
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July 21, 2017Simon Fraser University, the City of Surrey, and Siemens Canada have partnered to provide advanced learning and certification opportunities for engineering students and professionals. The collaboration will see the introduction of the Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification Program at SFU’s Surrey campus—which will enable participants...
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July 21, 2017The Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec are investing $25.06 million in a project at Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine in Montréal. A federal release states that the funding will allow CHU Sainte-Justine to create a technology centre for pediatric rehabilitation in Montréal. “The Marie...
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July 21, 2017Pratishtha Kohli did her undergraduate degree as an international student at the University of Toronto and is working on her master's degree at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. (Hart House) Ontario’s universities are becoming increasingly dependent on revenues from international students, according to...
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July 12, 2017The Government of Canada has announced that it will invest $840K in Collège André-Grasset, which combined with a $1.44M contribution from the school and its partners will result in a total investment of $2.28M. A federal release notes that the funds will be used to...
