Universities have been vocal about their ambitions to lure more international students to Canada, but they are quietly worried far too few Canadian students go abroad for their own formative experiences.
We need a facility to attract and train top talent, with the goal of both making discoveries and getting them to market.
Policy-makers have talked about business innovation endlessly - now the Harper government says it is determined to do something about it.
Heading off dissent angers some students.
B.C.'s advanced education minister came under fire Wednesday for what protesters called her "shameful" remarks about mounting student debt levels.
Thousands of students across Canada were shouting out loud Wednesday that education is a right and should be affordable for all Canadians.
Protesters threatened with trespass charges if they camped on private campus property.
Their work shows the use of next-generation pacemakers helps patients with moderate heart failure, writes Tom Spears.
When Canada negotiated its free-trade agreement with the United States more than two decades ago, proponents insisted it would improve Canada’s productivity.
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) is holding a National Day of Action on Wednesday in the name of increased access to a university education.
A former top Canadian soldier and security chief has joined the ranks at Queen’s University.
'Incubator' would help out new businesses.
The fall of 2008 was not a happy time in Canada. Canada was slipping into a global recession, a just-returned third minority Parliament was cranky and Canadians were increasingly cynical about the capacity of government to respond to real and urgent needs.
Quietly, almost stealthily, the woman Concordia University paid more than $700,000 to leave has returned to the campus
A team of Montreal scientists has pinpointed the genetic causes behind some of the deadliest brain tumours in children, raising hopes of a "tailored" therapy that might one day save lives and spare patients horrendous side effects.
Christmas is long gone, but staff and students at Concordia say the university administration seems to have taken the Grinch to heart in a battle over the date that classes resumed after the holidays
More a technological service than a product, cloud computing refers to storing data and running software programs remotely, even across borders, on servers that may be owned by someone else.
Immigration minister plans to ditch preference for immigrants with university degrees.
At the University of Manitoba, where she enrolled after high school, it seemed to take Angela Conrad forever to satisfy her degree requirements by taking courses in women’s studies, Greek mythology, and other courses she considered impractical.
The Harper government weathered a storm when it cut funding to long-standing foreign-aid groups, but is now facing more controversy over its decision to launch development projects in partnership with mining firms.
If a university thinks it's smart, maybe an entire city should do it.
Monday night, Sting kissed Pierre Lassonde’s wife. Tuesday morning, the mining mogul gave York University a cool $25 million to bring its dream of an engineering school to life.
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