Ontario’s Minister of Research and Innovation John Wilkinson announced $150,000 in new funding for Hamilton’s McMaster University today. I would have loved to cover the announcement – not because it qualifies as "newsworthy" – because it was in a better climate than Hamilton today. Wilkinson made the announcement from…
The Ontario University Application Centre released its application statistics for February last week. According to the February numbers, few programs are seeing a significant rise in applicants this year. While most programs saw modest rises [http://www.ouac.on.ca/news/uapp/feb08/febprogssuas_app_20080206_20070207.pdf] in applicants,…
Students at the University of Waterloo overwhelmingly voted to end [http://atuw.ca/feds-election-results-are-in-ckms-fee-is-gone-wusc-is-added/] the mandatory student subsidy of CKMS radio. Like many campus radio stations, the UWaterloo station serves as more of a radio station directed to the greater urban community of Kitchener/Waterloo than a station dedicated to…
I’m having a hard time honestly believing that the number of "students" involved in the sex trade is even close to that high, but according to an article [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/article3396280.ece?token=null&offset=0] put out by The…
The federal government gave researchers across the country a Valentine’s gift last Thursday with the announcement of $163 million in new funding to establish 11 new “Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research.” The centres are to pursue major discoveries and work to bring them to customers over the…
A group calling itself “concerned Niagara citizens” is distributing [http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/oshawa/article/93905] a flyer complaining about a proposed apartment building for students. Apparently there is at least one individual who is not satisfied that students are being driven out of the neighbourhoods surrounding the University of…
Paul Stenton, a vice-president at Ryerson University, says alumni donations to the university have fallen by 5 per cent in the past five years, the student paper the Eyeopenerreported [http://www.theeyeopener.com/article/3793]. But Bob Baker, the executive director of university advancement, says they have been growing. Baker…
A mother in England has been sentenced [http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Mum-jailed-over-truant-daughter.3772451.jp] to six weeks in jail for allowing her 13-year-old daughter to play hooky. Ann Watson’s daughter has only showed up for class once in the last nine months. The judge felt that there was…