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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 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,
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https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/covid-19-updates-for-march-2020/
In my opinion
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/