Shameless plug: The Silhouette has a website
The Silhouette, McMaster’s student newspaper, finally has a website. (again) This week’s issue is up: www.thesil.ca [http://www.thesil.ca]…
Finally, good public policy
Yesterday, Stéphane Dion’s unveiled [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/09/17/dion-plans-25-billion-investment-in-student-aid/#comment-5844] his post-secondary education platform. The platform proposes to replace current federal tax credits with in-study grants; provide significant relief for student loan borrowers in their repayment phase; create more needs-based grants, with each grant having…
Federal Election VII: I’ll do it tomorrow
I have a slightly different take on Stephane Dion’s Post-Secondary plan than my colleague [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/09/17/an-education-grab-bag/] and I was going to write that take tonight….. but…. I decided to catch up with one of my NDP friends tonight and we went out…
Dion would boost student aid, research funding
My news story on Dion’s PSE platform is now live. [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/09/17/dion-plans-25-billion-investment-in-student-aid/] We’re working on a summary opinion piece right now… expect that soon.…
Impressions of Conestoga College
Dion’s announcement resulted in me finally visiting Kitchener/Waterloo’s Conestoga College today.After taking the bus from Hamilton to Cambridge, I hoped onto a city bus for the final leg of my trip. I’ve never been on a city bus while travelling on through a series of…
Liberal PSE plan news release online
I’m just heading the road to catch up with the Liberal campaign and have three minutes to get out the door. Here’s the release: http://www.liberal.ca/story_14632_e.aspx Enjoy discussing…. I’m offline until 1:30pm. UPDATE: My news story on the announcement is…
FNTI: funding runs out in April
This week, The Eyeopenerincludes a story [http://www.theeyeopener.com/articles/3755-First-Nations-students-at-risk-of-losing-funding] about the joint Ryerson-First Nations Technical Institute programs which are threated by the lack of support from the federal government for FNTI. In the last year, I’ve written extensively [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/tag/first-nations-technical-institute/] about…
Federal Election IV: Liberals to release PSE platform tomorrow
I’m told that Stéphane Dion will unveiling the Liberal party’s post-secondary education plan tomorrow during his scheduled appearance at the University of Western Ontario in the morning. I’ll have my report up early in the afternoon. I will also be trying to catch up with Dion’s…