Education

Afraj Gill has written for The Globe and Mail, worked for Google and campaigned for former Prime Minister Paul Martin.
  • 5 years 6 months ago

Student entrepreneur to speak at TEDx

When Afraj Gill emigrated from India in 2000, he never thought he’d write for The Globe and Mail l while in university.Continue...

Queen's will phase out Moodle and replace it with Brightspace beginning in the summer of 2015.
  • 5 years 6 months ago

Moodle to be jettisoned

Over the coming years, Queen’s will synthesize its student body’s online learning experience by transitioning from Moodle to Brightspace, a learning management system.Continue...

Lia Baird, left, and Zoey Katz are members of the Holocaust Education Week 2014 Committee.
  • 5 years 9 months ago

Holocaust education not over

This year’s Holocaust Education Week, organized by Queen’s Hillel, aims to show the connections between past, present and future.Continue...

  • 5 years 9 months ago

Sex ed revamp overdue

Ontario’s current sexual education and health curriculum — established in 1998 — is alarmingly outdated.Continue...

  • 5 years 10 months ago

Quest bridges study and recovery

The opening of Canada’s first recovery high school is a solid step in creating resources for youth with substance use disorders.Continue...
  • 5 years 11 months ago

Queen’s grads head to college

In 2012, Justin Andrews decided that university and law school weren’t for him.Continue...

Programs that some universities have told the province that they hope to expand, according to the Strategic Mandate Agreement released by the Ontario provincial government this past August.
  • 5 years 11 months ago

Education not just about efficiency

Directing Ontario universities to specialize could introduce some efficiencies to our post-secondary education system. It could also allow some Ontario schools to push boundaries in their areas of expertise.Continue...

  • 6 years 5 months ago

University admission test a non-starter

Canadian universities shouldn’t institute an admissions test; doing so would simply add additional hurdles and stress, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds.Continue...

  • 6 years 5 months ago

Newcomers thrive

It’s not surprising that the children of immigrants are attending university at higher rates than children from families that have been in Canada for many generations. This fact, however, shouldn’t kick off a rush to defund programs that help new immigrants.Continue...

  • 6 years 6 months ago

Professors strike, their right

While the negative effects of faculty strikes are significant, university professors should continue to exercise their right to strike as they see fit.Continue...

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