December 2010
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$1 million for UVic business
Donation from Jarislowsky Fraser to help students understand Asia
A $1-million gift to the University of Victoria will help students gain a better understanding of Asian cultures and be better equipped to do business successfully in Asia.
The gift from Stephen Jarislowsky, founder and CEO of Jarislowsky Fraser, a Montreal-based investment company, will be matched by funds from the Centre...
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Geist: Canadian education faces technology tipping...
Canadian universities and colleges have undergone a remarkable technological transformation over the past decade.
Ten years ago laptops were relatively rare in classrooms, yet today virtually every student comes to buildings outfitted with electric outlets and Internet connectivity at each seat equipped with one. Course websites were once little more than places to post a syllabus and a...
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Stripped of club status, Carleton Lifeline sues...
Carleton Lifeline has been a certified campus club since 2006. That all changed on Nov. 15 when the club announced via press release that the Carleton University Student Association had decided to not give Lifeline status this year. CUSA has taken issue with section 3.2 in the club’s constitution, which states: “Carleton Lifeline believes in the equal rights of the unborn and firmly...
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Students struggling as loans now 3 months late
Students are struggling to afford food and rent – as their loans are more than three months late.
The president of the student union at Manchester Metropolitan University has hit out at the Student Loans Company – which has also come under attack from a committee of MPs.
The committee found the company has not improved its service enough since it left thousands of students without funds in...
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IRS Steps Up Scrutiny of Colleges and Other...
The Internal Revenue Service says it plans greater scrutiny of a wide range of charity activities in the next year, including compensation and loans that colleges and other nonprofit groups make to top officials and whether they paid sufficient employment taxes.
Most important for colleges, the agency said it would continue to focus on the results of a compliance questionnaire sent to 400...
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McGill MBA students ‘left out to dry’ by tuition...
Quebec is grappling with the combustible question of how to price a university degree fairly, wondering whether its tuition levels – Canada’s lowest – have fallen out of step with the costs of quality education.
But nowhere has the province’s existing philosophy been more boldly defied than at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, which has rejected provincial subsidies to...
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New study probes decrease in gender wage...
A new Statistics Canada study seeks to explain why the gap in hourly pay between men and women has narrowed in Canada.
Between 1988 and 2008, women’s income increased to around 83 cents for every dollar men earn, up from around 76 cents, according to the federal agency’s Website.
The report released today (December 20) attributes the shrinking gap, in part, to faster growth to the relative...
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Post-secondary is closing the wage gap
Are single, educated women driving this change?
New Statistics Canada data shows that the wage gap between men and women is shrinking. It’s not closed yet, but it’s shrinking is certainly cause for some celebration.
Not surprisingly, though, once you break down the data, education is at the heart of the change…
…This equalization is happening quickly. Between 2000 and 2008,...
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researcher gets $730K grant to study LGBT bullying
A researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $730,000 grant for a four-year study of adolescents’ reasoning about bullying due to gender and sexuality, and about bullying as a means of social control.
Stacey Horn, UIC associate professor of educational psychology, said a growing body of research shows the prevalence of sexuality-related bullying, but few...
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For-Profit Schools Under Fire, Stocks Down Nearly...
After years of on-again-off-again controversy, the for-profit education industry is experiencing an explosion of negative publicity and government scrutiny—and investors have noticed.
Once the darlings of Wall Street, for-profit education companies have seen their market value plunge to the lowest level in 52 weeks, leaving investors to wonder if the industry would be able to survive in its...
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Student leaders: Govt support for bill puts...
Student leaders outline what is wrong with Act’s bid to make association membership voluntary
The decision of National members of a parliamentary select committee to ignore tertiary institutions, students and the public by supporting an Act bill to impose voluntary student membership on students’ associations is disgraceful.
It will put students’ services, representation...
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Editorial: Student bodies must adapt to law change
All sorts of dire consequences are being forecast if the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill becomes law.
The legislation, which has been endorsed by Parliament’s education and science select committee, does no more than allow students to choose if they want to join a student association.
Yet a group of student leaders, writing this week in the Herald, claims it will...
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Student union bill a win for freedom of choice,...
The passing of the second reading of a bill to make student union membership voluntary is an important blow in the battle to restore students’ freedom of association, says Act MP Heather Roy.
Mrs Roy’s Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill came closer to becoming law after passing its second reading last night in the face of strong opposition from Labour and the...
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Opt-out bill for student unions labelled a threat...
University and polytech sports services and cultural events could be in jeopardy, say opponents of a bill that would allow individual students to choose if they want to join a student association.
The education and science select committee yesterday endorsed the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill, even though more than 90 per cent of submissions were against it.
Most...
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Students pay high price for freedom
Universal or voluntary membership? That was the question put to tertiary students in 1999 after the National Government passed a law insisting they choose how they should belong to their student association…
… Only full voluntary membership of students’ associations will solve the principled human rights issues and practical accountability and responsibility issues that...
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Liberals dispute Tory ad claim of planned 'iPod... →
New online ads from the Conservative Party are sounding off about what they claim is a Liberal-led plan to implement a tax on personal audio players and other devices.
A new audio ad claims that the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois back “a brand new tax” that would see Canadians pay up to $75 more for “iPods, smart phones, personal video recorders, MP3 players and just...
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Former Student Who Faked His Way Into Harvard...
Adam Wheeler, the former student who was accused of creating fake transcripts and letters of recommendation to get into Harvard University, pleaded guilty today in a Massachusetts state court to larceny, identity fraud, and other charges, The Boston Globe reported. Mr. Wheeler, who is 24, was sentenced to 10 years of probation and ordered to repay more than $45,800 in financial aid he had...
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Indian education needs multi-prong approach →
…In the 1970s a grassroots movement spread like a prairie fire across the West. In Alberta and Saskatchewan, Indian parents conducted a series of school strikes. Parents withdrew their children from the integrated schools and demanded that schools be located on their reserves.
The National Indian Brotherhood in 1972 adopted the policy, “Indian Control of Indian Education,” which...
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Olds College launches Canadian Institute for Rural...
Alberta-based Olds College announced yesterday the creation of the Canadian Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship (CIRE). Initially, work within the CIRE will focus on emerging new sectors in the rural economy such as farm-fresh food sales, the production of high value food products and ingredients, and rural manufacturing enterprises. Located on 5 acres of college land, the...
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Government Information News from Fondren Library,... →
According to a Dec. 14, 2010 press release, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Google have partnered to sell e-books of federal government titles through the new Google ebookstore. Starting with about 100 titles, GOP will continue adding to the Google site over the next several months. GPO also offers other online tools to find government information including the Federal ...
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What’s the matter with kids today? Well, no jobs,...
…Maclean’s magazine recently explored this phenomenon in a cover story titled Generation Screwed. It’s a chilling portrayal of the absolute mess boomers have not only created for the millennial generation (those born in 1980 or later) but seem destined to leave behind for others to clean up.
Our kids could be a lost generation, but boomers don’t seem too worried about it. They’re...
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Ex-PM Martin slams Ottawa over funding →
Former prime minister Paul Martin says it is “unforgivable” that Ottawa is shortchanging the funding of aboriginal education.
Martin, who served as prime minister between December 2003 and February 2006, said one of the reasons that aboriginal students drop out of school is the deplorable condition of many First Nation schools.
Speaking Wednesday in Winnipeg at a luncheon...
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Immigration consultant charged with student visa...
A BC-based immigration consultant faces criminal charges in connection with a scheme to get temporary student visas for non-students hoping to immigrate to Canada. Gungyon Mo, also known as Jason Mo, is charged with forging transcripts from Winston College, a Burnaby-based PSE institution where approximately 40% of students come from outside of Canada. Mo also allegedly told 7 people to give...
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Recruiting best international students needed to... →
Attracting the best international students to Canada is “an ever more pressing necessity,” writes University of Toronto professor Clifford Orwin in a column appearing in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. He says many outstanding Canadians will go wherever they expect to find a global elite of the best foreign students. “The very last thing they want is a sheltered workshop for...
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Drop in foreign enrolment draining Australia... →
Tighter visa rules, attacks on Indian students, a high dollar, and closures of shady colleges have reversed Australia’s fortunes as an exporter of education. Central Queensland University, where nearly half of students are full-fee payers from overseas, expects a 25% drop in international-student enrolment in 2011, which would shave off about $20 million from its budget next year. At the...
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Coalition Looks to Rally Student Support for... →
Improving access to scholarly journals is not a typical student rallying cry, but a growing organization thinks it should be.
The Right to Research Coalition, which says it represents student groups comprising 5.5 million members in the United States and several other countries, unveiled a Web site and blog in October to educate and connect students about open-access publishing, and...
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Many Concordia students can't afford groceries
This year, more that 700 university students have turned to the service to bail them out when loan and bursary cheques were delayed, part-time jobs fell through, and the cost of tuition, ancillary fees and textbooks – coupled with rent, food and other essentials – caught them off-guard...
…In 2009, Concordia’s emergency food plan gave out more than $60,000 in food cards.
“That scared me...
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Universities must embrace change: expert
Universities in New Brunswick will have to make drastic changes if they are going to be successful in a province that carries a large debt and an aging population, Alex Usher told four of the province’s university leaders on Monday night.
Usher said the “only way you are going to get through the financial and demographic crunch” will be for the universities to diversify their...
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Canadian university students find a new way to... →
LikeALittle.com,an online “flirting-facilitator platform”, is taking Canadian college campuses by storm.
The site combines the immediacy of Twitter, the mystery of Missed Connections and the location sensitivity of Foursquare, with the intention of making instant online matches between strangers in the same place at the same time.
Take this fairly typical missive from the...