Add another black eye to the reputation of Canadian private career colleges with the sudden closure of Miramichi Career College on May 26. The college was closed under mysterious circumstances and is currently subject of a police investigation requested by the New Brunswick government. According to its not-up-to-date website [http:…
I’m at the Ontario Legislative Assembly right now. I will be trying to get Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities to answer a few questions on illegal ancillary fees. I will do this following Question Period which is presently occurring. A government backbencher is asking the Minister…
As someone who was hounded by the McMaster Students Union’s attempts to have me charged with “harassment” under McMaster University’s Student Code of Conduct, it should come as no surprise that I do not support these codes. Non-academic codes of conduct have received a great deal of attention…
It’s official, Allan Rock is the next leader [http://www.media.uottawa.ca/mediaroom/news-details_1491.html] of the University of Ottawa.…
I am planning to attend a Fraser Institute event [http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=864475] in the morning. The FI is bringing Norman LaRocque [http://www.educationforum.org.nz/norman_larocque.asp] from New Zealand to speak in Toronto on the topic of post-secondary education. (Spoiler Alert:…
Toronto police have arrested and charged [http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/pdfs/14169.pdf] a 45-year old male in connection with three sexual assaults. At least two of the three assaults occurred at York University. On March 16, a woman running to catch a city bus was inappropriately touched…
Colbert delivered [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gG6ETB-rL6LIKTh1J0P1cwwZV9UgD912IRMO1] a speech to graduates at Princeton University in which called on the students to not change the world. "You can change the world," Colbert said. "Please don’t do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now." (This…
A stereotype of France is that some large union is always on strike. I’m starting to believe the same can be said of the Israeli education system. It seems there is always a strike occurring. Even when they settle a strike, it only takes a couple of days before…