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How to create a university class schedule that doesn’t suck
Photograph by Janine Wiedel One of the biggest challenges upon entering university or college is the task of creating your own schedule. The courses you choose—and the way they are scheduled—can have a...
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To nobody’s surprise, university is no cheap feat. But how much does an education really cost? With the price of rent, groceries and the occasional drink, school fees are only a fraction of the...
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How to decide between college and university in Canada
Vancouver Campus (Hover Collective/UBC) Career coach Sarah Vermunt always loved writing. In her book, Careergasm: Find Your Way to Feel-Good Work, she describes how, when it came time to decide which...
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Canadian professors still face a gender pay gap
People participate in a Women’s March in Toronto in January 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young) Megan Frederickson, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto...
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Paying off student debt: eight ways to squash it quickly
It’s no secret that tuition rates and other university-related costs have risen steadily in the past several years. In fact, students living at home spent an average of $9,300 per year on their...
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What students need to know about credit cards and loans
Several years ago, Avraham Byers got himself into money trouble on his college campus. “Someone was giving out credit cards to students and I thought I could handle it,” says Byers. “But I was...
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How Canadian university students can save for a year of travel
Rachel Birenbaum, a 19-year-old student at the University of Guelph, has been saving her money for “big things” since the age of 10. And while in the past it’s been a laptop or a trip to Montreal with...
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What it’s like to be LGBTQ at a Canadian Christian university
When Nate Froehlich came out as gay this summer, he had a lot at stake as a young man of faith. He grew up in Peachland, B.C., a town near Kelowna with a population of about 5,000, born to parents...
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Why more Canadian university students need to study abroad
University of Toronto student Fredriz Cantilado spent three months in 2017 living and working in Tema, Ghana, a small city near the country’s capital, Accra. Cantilado supported an array of local...
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Study in the U.K.: A guide for Canadian students
With some of the oldest universities in the English-speaking world, and many of the current top-ranked ones, there’s a reason the United Kingdom is second on the list of most-chosen countries for...
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Reconciliation on campus: what’s the next step beyond inclusion?
Ruth Koleszar-Green likes to remind those on the York University campus how far Indigenous people have come in academia within a generation. Koleszar-Green, an assistant professor in York’s school of...
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How Indigenous scholarship winners are busting myths and stereotypes
Billy-Ray Belcourt won an Indspire youth award for his poetry (Photo: Tenille Campbell) As a child raised in the protective embrace of the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwest Alberta, Billy-Ray Belcourt...
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Study in the United States: A guide for Canadian students
Our southern neighbour is a destination for about eight per cent of outbound Canadian students, according to the Canadian Bureau for International Education. It’s geographically close, culturally...
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Study in France: A guide for Canadian students
France is not only the top tourist destination in the world, it’s also tops for Canadian students studying abroad. Fourteen per cent of outbound students choose to study there, according to data from...
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A new network aims to connect and support Indigenous scholars
Vanessa Ambtman-Smith stands inside the Mshkikii Gamik medicine lodge that will loom large in her graduate research over the next four years. Located on the ground floor of the Ramsey Lake Health...
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Canadian law schools trade moot courts for Indigenous land-based learning
There are many nêhiyaw—or Cree—ways to hunt moose. There are very old required legal teachings, each passed down through families and communities, learned through the patient experience of preparing to...
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Can UOIT become Canada’s MIT?
Like many of his classmates, fifth-year kinesiology major Benson Naman often has to explain where he goes to school: the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. With its clunky acronym—UOIT—the...
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21 tips every first-year student should know
Be open to unfamiliar surroundings If you’re attending university in a distant city, expect to feel excitement in meeting new people and forging new friendships, but also to experience some...
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How first-aid kits for mental health symptoms are helping Canadian university...
In the midst of yet another panic attack, Tina Chan realized she needed better help. Chan was a first-year student at the University of Waterloo, and the transition from high school wasn’t going...
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How Canadian universities are responding to the TRC’s Calls to Action
Dalhousie’s Indigenous Student Centre recently relocated to a prominent place on the university’s downtown Halifax campus. Residing in a cheery blue house, shared by the Black Student Advising Centre,...
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The long campaign to change McGill’s varsity name
Tomas Jirousek, a fourth-year varsity rower at McGill and a member of the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta, spent the third year of his undergraduate career working to change the name of...
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How Harvard makes the U.S. less equal
Toronto-born American author Paul Tough has written for years about subjects related to education, equity, poverty, children and parents, most notably in his 2012 bestseller, How Children Succeed. In...
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Who pays to protect free speech on campus
It was early March and there was still snow underfoot as students from the University of Alberta pro-life club set up metal scaffolding for their display. The posters, shipped to the Edmonton campus...
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What it’s like to defend your Ph.D. during a pandemic
On April 1, 2020, after eight years, two concussions, a supervisor who moved to another university, a pause for a summer internship and several existential crises about what I was doing with my life, I...
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Chika Oriuwa, valedictorian for U of T’s medical school, gives her address
Chika Oriuwa graduates from medical school at the University of Toronto today, June 2, 2020. In her valedictory address (which can be seen in the above video; the transcript appears in full below),...
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How Canadian universities are welcoming their freshmen during a pandemic
May Black headed to Wilfrid Laurier University this fall ready to become a “Golden Hawk”—the nickname for students who embrace the school spirit of the Waterloo, Ont., institution. The 18-year-old...
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University transcripts move into the digital age
In January 2020, ‘Snowmageddon’ stopped MUN from issuing students’ transcripts for nine days (Andrew Vaughan/CP) In January, Newfoundland experienced what many now call Snowmageddon. St. John’s, home...
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Leaning into distance learning
Originally from Worcester, Mass., Loch Baillie is a fourth-year honours English literature and French student at Bishop’s University. It was March 2020 and I had just returned home from my semester...
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Five basic kitchen supplies every student should have
Moving away for school is like taking a crash course in adulting. And even if you opt for residence and full meal plans in your first year of university, at some point you’re going to have to figure...
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The fight to end hunger on Canadian university campuses
It’s commonplace for post-secondary students to survive off a substandard diet of ramen noodles, boxed macaroni and cheese, and other affordable staples that are cheap, filling and quick to prepare....
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The weird and wonderful work of a university residence assistant
“Somebody put a pillow in the washing machine at one o’clock in the morning and flooded the entire second floor of the building. That kind of thing was a Tuesday night.” That’s Molly Strickland, who...
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Ontario nursing schools are seeing an increase in applicants during the pandemic
McMaster Univeristy, School of Nursing BScN student training at McMaster University Medical Centre. (Courtesy of Ron Scheffler/McMaster University) When 23-year-old Srisudhakar (Sri) Nowduri was 16, he...
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9 budgeting tips for university students
University is often the first time many students have to start thinking about how to balance their various expenses—books, groceries, even going out. And sometimes trouble crops up when your financial...
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Extending scholarship to oral traditions through podcasting
In an early episode of his new podcast, Our Creaturely Kin, Daniel Heath Justice—a renowned First Nations and Indigenous studies professor at the University of British Columbia—will do a deep dive on...
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Did the pandemic make post-secondary students more resilient?
(Illustrations by Melanie Lambrick) Over the summer, when Maclean’s started chatting with students about how they were feeling almost 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there was really only one...
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Introducing the 2022 3M National Teaching Fellowship Award Winners
The 3M National Teaching Fellowship was created in 1986 by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) to recognize exceptional teachers in post-secondary education. Every year,...
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How to stay on top of finances in college
Know what you owe Your tuition bill will likely include two types of charges: 1) the cost of each course, and 2) ancillary fees, which are typically charged every semester. Ancillary fees fund...
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Everything you need to know about colleges in Canada
From the types of credentials you can earn to cost, here are the answers to your college-related questions. What is the difference between college and university? Colleges and universities both offer...
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Five things you didn’t know you could study at college
Colleges provide students with hands-on job training in fields as diverse as health care, engineering, manufacturing and the arts. Here are some of the programs you may not have heard of. Adventure...
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