Reading Time: 3 minutes The payoffs from investing more in applied research collaboration among different kinds of institutions are practical and long-lasting
Category: Education
Second line of O Canada should read “Our home on native land”
Reading Time: 4 minutes One small change to the words of O Canada will remind us of our historic debt and help facilitate broader knowledge of Indigenous issues
Don’t judge historic figures without knowledge of our history
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian curriculums fail students when it comes to teaching the content necessary to have informed, intelligent debate
Building a passion for STEM studies among women and girls
Reading Time: 4 minutes Only 20 per cent of Canada’s post-secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics students are female. That must change. Here’s how to start
UCP: go back to school on proposed education reforms
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Alberta party’s proposal to increase funding for independent schools is unlikely to improve education in Alberta
Scrabble’s surprising benefits, from the mundane to the profound
Reading Time: 3 minutes Learn new words, hone your math skills, employ strategy … calm the restless mind, learn patience and humility
Enduring words of wisdom on reconciliation
Reading Time: 4 minutes If we had listened to Pierre Trudeau, we would no longer be talking about reconciliation – we would be at least part way there
Bizarre cult of oppression grips Canada’s West Coast
Reading Time: 4 minutes The environment is only a side issue for an increasingly passionate mob of activists whose assault on the ‘establishment’ is nothing less than a moral crusade
Marxism rears its ugly head in the academic world
Reading Time: 4 minutes Brutal communist societies did advance economic equality, although what was shared equally was poverty rather than prosperity
The job-market payoff of a hands-on bachelor’s degree
Reading Time: 4 minutes The graduate employment rate for bachelor’s degree holders from Polytechnics Canada members was 91 per cent in 2015-16