IN MY OPINION
Brazil understands that investing in international study is a path to global competitiveness.
The newer iterations are a much better use of the medium.
How the liberal arts made me better at mathematics.
There are not many things in A.D. 2015 which can make an adult blush. Certainly, no one seems to be embarrassed these days by the proverbial “embarrassment of riches.” In fact, the one constant in our society is that nearly everybody would be most embarrassed by a shortage of funds, whether culpable or not. My […]
A Quebec physicist responds to the president of NSERC
Why can’t students be more like their professors?
Broadening the role of humanities education is laudable. How we get there is another matter.
More choice for authors of scholarly publications is central to the new policy
On what grounds should academic decisions be made? I mean decisions about hiring, tenure, and promotion, decisions about curricula and standards, about styles of teaching, about admitting students? On academic grounds alone is one answer, the answer I favour. Another answer is on grounds also of diversity, equity, or inclusiveness. So why not, when making […]
Sometimes, delaying the university experience is the best move.
Babies rarely work to their mother’s timetable or a conference schedule.
Reverence isn’t what liberal arts students most need. To start with, they need to learn how to use facts and think independently.
There’s a price to pay to attend university; there’s another to pay to succeed once we’re in.
Owning the ambition to reach non-specialist readers is the first step in making it happen.
A response to Peter MacKinnon’s excerpt on university governance and collective bargaining.
A theory of the ‘clever sillies’.
Is your university making full use of its campus radio?
Recent international rankings of universities seem to show that Canada’s major universities are slipping. But looking closer, we’re in fact not doing badly.
Students deserve to have reliable information when making choices about what to study.
It involves more than recruiting international students to solve domestic economic concerns.