Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s polytechnic institutions are developing the talent to drive the nation’s dramatic next-generation infrastructure expansion program
Tag: Colleges/Universities
Western culture’s paralyzing crisis of confidence
Reading Time: 3 minutes University students are increasingly intolerant and, indoctrinated with a poisonous cocktail of negativity, taught that western civilization is immoral
How grad students can help diversify Alberta’s economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to support Alberta’s students as they make prototypes, file patents, pursue market analysis, prepare business plans and raise venture capital
When a degree isn’t enough to get you a job
Reading Time: 3 minutes An entry-level job teaches many things you don’t learn in school: getting to work on time; getting along; dealing with deadlines and customers
Getting snowed under in a political Potter’s field
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fault isn’t with Quebec society. It’s with a political world that utterly rejects that it must bear responsibility when hundreds are stranded in a storm
Why French Canadians have a right to be offended
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Andrew Potter incident should be viewed from the perspective of an ongoing pattern of anglophones marginalizing francophones
Andrew Potter, Maclean’s and the loss of academic freedom
Reading Time: 3 minutes His departure from McGill was a terrible moment for the talented columnist and editor – and a disgrace to one of Canada’s oldest institutions of higher learning
Putting a higher value on higher learning
Reading Time: 3 minutes Graduate schools must encourage students to evaluate their competencies and appreciate how those skills will help them pursue non-academic careers
Funding help alone won’t ensure more students succeed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bridging the socio-economic gap in poor schools to improve literacy and math skills will ultimately give young people a leg up in post-secondary institutions
Set aside the stereotypes and put young people to work
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to tackle youth employment needs with more polytechnic education that uses work-integrated models of learning