Skip navigation

In my opinion

BY MARC SPOONER | JAN 23 2018

Where the plan goes off track is the system-wide metrics it uses to assess research excellence and impact.

BY JEAN LEBEL | JAN 18 2018

The International Development Research Centre’s response to Valéry Ridde’s opinion piece, “Canada must not abandon its young global health researchers.”

BY VALÉRY RIDDE | JAN 15 2018

We need a consistent policy for funding global health research.

BY ALAN SHEPARD | JAN 04 2018

A public scholars program at Concordia University will help doctoral candidates impart their research in compelling ways to audiences outside academe.

BY JOHN TRANT | DEC 29 2017

Undergraduate colleagues make you a better researcher and teacher. Here’s how.

BY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE | DEC 07 2017

Research today is about partnerships and networks to share data and ideas, and to answer the big questions that confront us.

BY MICHAEL J. ARMSTRONG | DEC 07 2017

It’s exam time. Research suggests that while some students will be pleasantly surprised by how they did on exams, a larger group will falsely believe they did much better on their exams than they did.

BY DANIEL ROBINSON | DEC 05 2017

It would be a shame if the lesson learned is simply to remove the controversial bits from your course.

BY ANDRE COSTOPOULOS | NOV 30 2017

We have an assessment system that is designed for our convenience as instructors and administrators, rather than for the learning needs of our students.

BY VIANNE TIMMONS | NOV 17 2017

Taking steps to ensure that conscious and unconscious bias do not play a role in hiring and promotion does not mean that excellence cannot exist.

BY EDMUND ADAM | NOV 13 2017

Are Canadian students up to the task?

BY JULIA M. WRIGHT | NOV 06 2017

Canada is hemorrhaging early career research capacity.

BY PAUL AXELROD | NOV 01 2017

University leaders concerned about the employability of graduates should sustain academic and curricular diversity, including the liberal arts.

BY OLDRICH BUBAK | OCT 23 2017

We need to introduce consistency and reliability into the classroom, and place the student experience at the centre of our teaching.

BY SARAH ELAINE EATON | OCT 18 2017

The second annual International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating is an attempt by universities around the world to raise awareness about students who hire others to do their work.

BY MICHAEL BAUMANN | OCT 17 2017

Why don’t more students protest against this most universally distressing ritual of university life?

BY JOHN BERGERON | OCT 11 2017

It is nearly impossible for talented early career researchers – especially women – to obtain stable funding to operate their labs.

BY KATHLEEN GALLAGHER | SEP 26 2017

There is a new duty felt by teachers at all levels of our education system to make good on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls to action, creating both a critically important opportunity and an unease about our preparedness.

BY MAUREEN MACDONALD | SEP 22 2017

The problem of equity is not new, nor is it unique to science, though I sense we’ve been ready to solve it for a long time.

BY BART DE BAERE & ELICIA MAINE | SEP 18 2017

We advocate for a harmonized intellectual property policy based on the creator-owned model.

Click to fill out a quick survey