- Survivors tell their stories
Montrealers who survived horrific human rights abuses lend their voices to an unusual oral history project led by researchers from four Montreal universities.
- January 5, 2012
- Academic papers get poetic
The experience of poets slash philosophers in academe reveals the growing pains that can accompany shifting disciplinary borders.
- November 29, 2011
- Research Rising
The status of research-based evidence in the Canadian courts moved up a notch with the resounding Insite decision by the Supreme Court. The implications for social scientists and their work could be profound.
- November 28, 2011
- Campus incubators hatch the entrepreneurial spirit
Students have been starting up businesses at such a feverish pace that the biggest challenge for universities that house such programs is keeping up with the talent and energy they’ve unleashed.
- November 28, 2011
- Book excerpt: Time to consider a new type of university
A new book argues for substantial reform to Ontario’s higher-education system, including the introduction of a rare breed of institution in Canada: the teaching-oriented university.
- November 3, 2011
- Way too many teachers
Oversupply doesn’t begin to describe the labour-market mismatch between newly minted teachers and teaching jobs in Ontario.
- November 3, 2011
- Unschooling: Legitimate pedagogy or foolish fad?
Why some scholars are adopting an educational philosophy that eschews formal lessons and any form of structure – and why others think it could be dangerous.
- October 31, 2011
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