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Universities: Bang for Our Buck? - TVO's The Agenda
May 7, 2012
Ontario is the education province, with a future purportedly based in the knowledge economy. But is the money being spent on Ontario universities delivering what we want?
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Statistics Canada discontinues key source of Canadian faculty data - University Affairs
May 7, 2012
I received Statistics Canada’s Daily bulletin this morning, which included data on “salaries and salary scales of full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities, 2010/2011.”
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Universities woo top students with home visits, special perqs and congratulatory T-shirts - Toronto Star
May 7, 2012
How badly does York University want Isabel Ng-Lai as a student? A York recruiter drove to her Scarborough high school this week to hand the Grade 12 super-star a juicy four-year $24,000 scholarship fa...
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Teaching-only universities would cut education costs, author says- Toronto Star
February 10, 2012
Undergraduate universities that focus on teaching only would create cosier classes, cut salary costs and boost student satisfaction, argues Ian Clark, the former head of the Council of Ontario Univers...
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The Coming Higher-Ed Revolution - National Affairs Journal
January 26, 2012
The higher-education industry is on the verge of such a transformative re-alignment. Many Americans agree that a four-year degree is vastly overpriced — keeping many people out of the market — and are...
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Do employers care about a university’s reputation? - Globe and Mail
January 26, 2012
Which university should you choose if your goal is to get a job when you graduate?
The question is surprisingly difficult to answer.
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Universities tossing at-risk undergrads an academic lifebuoy - Globe and Mail
January 5, 2012
As more than one million Canadian undergraduate university students await their marks from first semester, some are hoping for a holiday miracle that will save their tanking grades.
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Are big classes really a problem? - Macleans OnCampus
January 5, 2012
Having trouble with a difficult calculus problem? Trying to figure out how to draw a resonance structure for your lab report? If you’re a student at the University of Toronto, chances are you’re out o...
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Advancing the open front - Inside Higher Ed
December 20, 2011
MIT, which pioneered the “open educational resources” (OER) movement a decade ago when it began publishing its course materials free online, could push the needle further than either Stanford or Khan....
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Want committed employees? Then offer to pay for their family’s tuition- Globe and Mail
December 12, 2011
Parents with grown kids often marvel at how fast the child-rearing years go by: One minute you’re watching your toddlers run around the playground, the next you’re sending them off to college – and wr...
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