Teaching Assistants
  • 8 years 6 months ago

You’re no Swift, Gazette

Western’s student newspaper showed an incredible lack of judgment in publishing a series of offensive stories last month.Continue...

TAs not only mark papers, they facilitate tutorials and labs and serve as a first point of contact for students
  • 9 years 1 month ago

Teaching goes both ways

These days, your undergraduate experience isn’t complete without Teaching Assistants.Continue...
  • 2 years 3 months ago

International graduate students now eligible to hold TA and RA positions

Late this summer, international graduate students living abroad found, due to their location, they would be unable to hold TA or RA positions during the Fall 2020 term.Continue...

The unclear rules of student-TA relationships
  • 4 years 6 months ago

The unclear rules of student-TA relationships

As students and teaching assistants (TAs) return to classes, some will bond over more than their lessons. As of Fall 2017, the University employed 1,850 TAs in a wide range of departments, class sizes, and duties. But intimate relationships between some students and TAs might often be overlooked.Continue...
  • 5 years 1 week ago

Professional Student Teaching Assistants to Join PSAC local 901

On Mar. 9, Queen’s voluntarily recognized professional student teaching assistants (TAs) in the Juris Doctor and Doctor of Medicine programs are falling under the umbrella of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) bargaining unit.Continue...
  • 5 years 4 months ago

Teaching Assistants Union launches condom campaign

To get the attention of students in their most recent campaign, Public Service Alliance of Canada Local 901 have handed out condoms throughout campus that read “Teaching Assistants and Fellows need union protection.”Continue...
  • 6 years 3 weeks ago

Queen’s far from Canada’s “best employer”

Last week, Queen's was cited as Canada’s best employer by Forbes magazine. This assessment may ring true for some workers at Queen's, however for many others it sounds like a Beaverton headline.Continue...

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