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BY JESSICA NATALE WOOLLARD | August 25 2017

Dans au moins une université, le recours par les étudiants à des services de révision fait l’objet de sévères limitations.

dissertation au premier cycle ou un rapport de laboratoire? L’Université de Victoria prévoit des exceptions dans sa nouvelle politique, explique Mme Beam. « Nous voulions que le libellé de la politique soit assez général pour couvrir tous les types de travaux évalués tout en offrant la ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/les-etudiants-qui-font-reviser-leurs-travaux-sontils-des-tricheurs/
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BY SALMA MAHGOUB | November 08 2018

Cette année, 14 étudiants noirs ont été admis à la Faculté de médecine de l’Université de Toronto dans le cadre du Black Student Application Program.

dissertation dans laquelle ils expliquent pourquoi ils ont choisi le volet BSAP. À l’instar des autres étudiants, ils doivent satisfaire aux exigences en matière de notes et d’engagement communautaire énoncées dans les lignes directrices d’admission générale. Toutefois, d’autres pers...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/un-programme-dadmission-fait-augmenter-le-nombre-detudiants-noirs-en-medecine/
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BY TERRI COLES | December 12 2018

The event, where graduate students explained their research in the form of a baked good, appears to be the first of its kind in Canada.

Canada’s immigrant communities rendered in fondant on a cake; the experience of trauma depicted as a cinnamon bun: these are some of the confections that were part of the first Bake Your Thesis competition at Memorial University, where participants said the process of turning their research into a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/bake-your-thesis-brings-together-sweets-and-scholarship/
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BY WENDY GLAUSER | August 13 2019

Augmenter le nombre d’étudiants autochtones en médecine et étoffer les volets sur la santé des Autochtones figurent parmi les engagements et s’ajoutent aux mesures déjà prises.

dissertation autobiographique pour décrire leur situation. Les autochtones non inscrits reçoivent du soutien dans le cadre d’un processus consistant à présenter, en toute confidentialité, une preuve d’ascendance autochtone à un comité. Pour inciter les étudiants autochtones à présen...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/les-facultes-de-medecine-canadiennes-sengagent-a-ameliorer-la-sante-des-autochtones/
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BY UA/AU | March 31 2020
dissertation online instead of in person? Susanna Mitro, who successfully defended her research in population health sciences at Harvard University on Friday, Continue reading her https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/covid-19-updates-for-march-2020/
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BY DIANE PETERS | March 22 2021

‘If the programs don’t fit the outcomes, let’s see about changing the [programs],’ says Concordia academic who oversaw latest report tracking outcomes of PhD graduates.

PhD student Anh-Khoi Trinh knows his job prospects in academia and beyond may be limited when he wraps up his thesis in a year. “I’m a theoretical physicist and my work is purely mathematical in a way that isn’t very applicable to many fields,” says the McGill University student. “I jus...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/a-phd-leads-to-meaningful-employment-but-seldom-in-jobs-for-which-they-were-meant-reports-find/
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BY TARA SIEBARTH | June 21 2017
dissertation, with a recommendation that he be stripped of his degree. Clarivate Analytics Continue reading As Canada celebrates its 150th ann...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-june-21-2017/
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BY TARA SIEBARTH | August 20 2019
dissertation proposal, giving Cooke—a professor of biology at Carleton University in Ottawa—no choice but to kick him out of the lab. Global News Halifax poet...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-aug-20-2019/
People on the Move
BY ANQI SHEN | November 03 2017
dissertation and informed many of her later publications. Two other academics – Micheline Dumont, professor emeritus at Université de Sherbrooke, and Elizabeth Sheehy, a professor of law at the University of Ottawa – were also among those honoured on Oct. 18. ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-november-2017/
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BY ABU KAMARA | August 20 2012

Advisory panel also recommends more support for international students.

dissertation, “International students and the politics of growth.”  ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/internationalization-the-other-side-of-the-story/
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BY TERRANCE LAVENDER | October 31 2012

They have their attractions but you have to ask yourself, is it really worth going?

dissertation as a conference paper. I’m not arguing that all conferences are a waste of time and money. You can make useful contacts and discover papers that you wouldn’t find through an academic search engine. And both large multi-faceted conferences and smaller select events can be intellec...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/the-b-list-conference-circuit/
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BY BRENDA BROUWER | April 10 2013

The overarching principle at Queen’s is to support students in completing high-quality work in a reasonable time frame.

As noted in the column “Queen’s plan to change its graduate policy needs more study,” published on March 27, the Graduate Studies’ Executive Committee (GSEC) at Queen’s University recently approved revisions to our policy on time-to-completion for graduate students. I would like to respond...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/a-flexible-plan-to-help-grad-students-finish-their-degrees/
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BY JANICE TIBBETTS | April 24 2013

Le concours de soutenance en 180 secondes n’est pas le meilleur moyen d’apprendre à communiquer.

Ayant récemment étudié à la maîtrise à l’Université Carleton, j’ai été perplexe de recevoir cet hiver un courriel annonçant la tenue d’un concours de soutenance en 180 secondes, un événement qui séduit actuellement les universités canadiennes. Dans le cadre de ce concours, des é...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/comment-ne-pas-alleger-votre-recherche/
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BY TIM PETTIPIECE | September 03 2014

A shift in the way academics are hired has created a long, lost generation.

dissertation within two. Check, check! Pursue a postdoctoral fellowship, present at international conferences, add to list of publications. You get the idea. At the same time I taught at three different institutions and developed a broad cross-disciplinary teaching portfolio with consistently positi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/academy-of-broken-dreams/
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BY DAN HARVEY + IMRE SZEMAN | December 17 2014

Entrepreneurship and innovation, while important and necessary, remain insufficient educational goals for Canada’s universities.

dissertation examines the pre-eminence of entrepreneurship in economics, politics, and culture, as the 21st century’s common sense. Imre Szeman holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. With Mr. Harvey, he is co-editor of a forthcoming special issue o...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/entrepreneurs-now/
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BY BRENDA BROUWER | March 07 2016

But, leveraging that talent requires a strategy and investment.

dissertation research, which is by its very nature experiential, are also increasing in order to provide “real world” experience by engaging external partners. The Mitacs Accelerate program is an oft-cited example from which we can learn. But the time has come to integrate those “real world”...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/canada-needs-more-phds/
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BY ANDREW MOORE | March 28 2018

Même s’il faut inculquer la discipline et le sens des responsabilités à nos étudiants, la compassion aussi a une valeur pédagogique.

dissertation, ont-elles vraiment autant de temps l’une que l’autre pour le faire? Le refus catégorique des travaux en retard enseigne peut-être la gestion du temps aux étudiants. Peut-être apprendront-ils que les règles doivent être respectées, et qu’ils ne sont pas le centre de l’...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/la-defense-des-retardataires/
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BY CHRIS KELLEHER | July 04 2018

International PhD candidates are flocking to Canada because the country is seen as still valuing the humanities.

dissertation. However, it has seemed like a missed opportunity that American students were largely barred from applying for many awards. There are obvious reasons for this. But, equally obvious are the reasons for including Americans in applying for fellowships, grants and other awards, and for i...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/an-american-in-the-promised-land-of-canada/
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BY ROBERT DANISCH | January 13 2020

For me, podcasting is a way to continue the conversation with my students and bring my research to unexpected new audiences.

dissertation research to audiences with different levels of expertise (tenured professors, undergraduate students and our grandmothers). My podcast is an expanded and extended version of that exercise. My two sons, 11 and 13, remain my toughest critics and the litmus test for a good episode. If they...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/why-should-academics-make-a-podcast/
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BY JENNIFER ANDREWS | July 30 2021

Looking at how BIPOC faculty are paid and treated when they first enter academia, and truly listening to them, would be a good first step in changing white privilege.

dissertation in record time. Despite the best intentions of hiring committees, chairs, deans, vice-presidents and presidents, these same hires are loaded down with service work because of the need to meet EDID goals that pay no attention to their impact on the very populations they are supposed to h...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/recognizing-the-intersectional-nature-of-oppression-is-key-to-making-universities-more-equitable/
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