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University students: welcome to the best years of your life
Photo Illustration by Taylor Shute Attention high school students: I don’t know you (unless I do, in which case: Hi!), but as a diploma-having university graduate who successfully completed an entire...
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Students go to where the ‘Bucks’ are
Cambrian College Bursaries and scholarships are great when students have already made up their minds to go to college or university. The challenge for Sudbury’s Cambrian College, which serves remote...
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The new underclass: Readers respond
Last week’s cover story, “The New Underclass: Why so many smart, educated, ambitious young people have no future” hit a nerve with readers. Some thought it was dead on, others thought it was...
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Infographic: How Canadian university students are paying their bills
The typical Canadian university student spends four years blowing borrowed money on clothes, music and liquor, right? That may be the stereotype, but it’s not the reality. The Canadian University...
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Infographic: What Canadians choose to study today
The programs post-secondary students choose these days suggest they’re somewhat aware of the job market. The first three charts in the infographic below, via Maclean’s On Campus, use data from the...
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In defence of the barista with the B.A.
illustir/Flickr The easiest punchline for media commentators on higher education these days is that we have university graduates working as baristas in coffee houses. Sometimes the assumption is that...
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Where universities have really failed
A job fair (Eastern Washington University/Flickr) Earlier this month, student Mercedes Mueller caught my eye with this provocative open letter to Canadian university presidents, accusing them of having...
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The awkward truth about excuse notes
Alex E. Proimos / Flickr I met Anna Drake, a University of Waterloo assistant professor, at a recent event in Toronto and asked: what are professors talking about these days? She said they’re...
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Queen’s pulls student’s underwear art
David Woodward Queen’s University student David Woodward’s final project All I Am Is What I’ve Felt got the type of reaction many new Bachelor of Fine Arts graduates dream about: he was asked to take...
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Canada’s 10 biggest universities
Hart House Library at the University of Toronto (Jessica Darmanin) These schools, including all campuses, have the largest number of full-time students in Canada: 1. University of Toronto 71,041 2....
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Top marks for Canada’s post-secondary schools
Students at UBC (Simon Hayter for Maclean's) At a conference on media and higher education last week at the University of Toronto, administrators spoke of a “crisis narrative” in the coverage of...
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Evaluating two radical ways to pay for university
An anti-tuition protest in London in December, 2010 (AP Photo/Gareth Fuller/PA) In 2012, maximum tuition fees in the United Kingdom nearly tripled to $14,000 per year, about twice the cost of the most...
View ArticleMemorial University student blasts beer boycott
“How does a bar in the middle of a university in the middle of Newfoundland lose money?,” says Noah Davis-Power. “That is absolutely astounding.” Last year when Davis-Power was running for a spot on...
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Why we can’t afford bad teachers in first year
Shutterstock I arrived at the University of Guelph just shy of 10 years ago and was so excited to study marketing that I spent much of frosh week highlighting and making notes in my intro to marketing...
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Hungry for a cause? Look closer at that cafeteria tray.
Shutterstock Students often want to help the environment or tackle poverty but don’t know where to begin. The 10th annual National Student Food Summit, held this weekend in Toronto, showed that campus...
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10 dumb things you shouldn’t do in first year
1. Fail to realize that, special as you are, you’re just one person on a huge campus. This has unfortunate side effects like clogging up busy hallways and other such silliness. 2. Buy brand new copies...
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University: First year by the numbers
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The dirty jobs
Skills Canada Growing up in Thornhill, Ont., David DaCosta learned from a young age two facts about his father, an industrious Portuguese immigrant: he was a sheet metal worker, and he didn’t want his...
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Inside the growing field of forensic engineering
Jimmy Jeong Before the hit series CSI, there was the Canadian documentary show Exhibit A, which traced the ways investigators had used high-tech scientific analysis to solve real-life crimes. As a...
View ArticleMixed feelings about international students
Every once in a while, a student newspaper contributor will float the idea that in a time when universities are short on resources (seats in the library, face-time with profs, one-ply toilet paper) we...
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