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Fresh Air and New Hope for Canada and Human Rights
This blog was prepared for the celebration of Human Rights Day 2015. There is a palpable sense of relief within the human rights community following the federal election results of October 19 th. Notwithstanding some commitments and investments in...
Shifts Happen
It is always nice to start the new academic year on a bit of a high, not always easy given enrollment challenges, coping with an election that has lasted longer than some prime ministerial terms, and being bombarded with Gradgrindingly Wente-esque...
Back to school: What is the media saying?
As Media Officer at the Federation, I monitor “back to school” media every September to get a snapshot of what dominates current debates and conversations in the postsecondary education (PSE) sector, and what some of the biggest priorities and...
Stephen Toope: Reconciliation begins by closing the graduation gap
This op-ed was published in The Globe and Mail on August 31, 2015. As millions of Canadian young people gear up for a return to classrooms this fall, the “back to school” rallying cry is ubiquitous – in advertising, in media headlines and in...
Des nouvelles méthodes d’apprentissage pour « Imaginer l’avenir du Canada »
Pour continuer à prospérer au XXI e siècle, le Canada doit être proactif et réfléchir collectivement à ses possibilités d’avenir afin d’être en mesure d’anticiper ses besoins comme société et en matière de connaissances, ainsi que les enjeux auxquels...
Who is telling our stories? Canadian millennials in literature and the humanities
On July 14, Go Set a Watchman will be released to the general public, a sequel of sorts to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Few works of literature have had a more profound role in shaping conversations on race in the 20th century than To Kill a...
Seeing the whole: innovation in learning
Innovation in learning was the topic of His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada’s Big Thinking lecture at Congress 2015. Focusing on improving the way we learn by drawing on all areas of research, His Excellency...
Identity and dignity: Bolivia’s Minister of Decolonization talks education
As the Honorable Félix Cárdenas Aguilar stepped up to the podium, I placed over my ears a fragile pair of grey plastic headphones. As he began a lively address to the packed auditorium, a gentle female voice echoed in my ears, translating his words...
Telling your research story - make it accessible!
We all dread the presenter who reads directly from the slides or paper in a monotone voice. Worse still is when that monotone voice uses heavy jargon that no one outside the field will understand. Shari Graydon says “scholars are trained to be...