Archive for Dale Kirby

Ministers pledge to remove all barriers to study, and create “appropriate economic conditions for students”

Saturday night tuneage courtesy one of my favourite rock acts, the St. John’s group The Novaks:

From The Times Higher Education:
Students are being encouraged to “snoop” on academics by texting a hotline if their teachers turn up late, the University and College Union has claimed.
Manchester Metropolitan Students’ Union launched its “LATE” campaign after receiving a number of student complaints about lectures running late and being cancelled without warning.
The students’ union then [...]

At-risk students earned $750 by maintaining at least a 2.0 GPA, among other requirements

Report exposed Manitoba’s tuition freeze policy for what it really was

From The Winnipeg Sun:
Manitoba’s public colleges, including Red River College, will soon be given the legal power to grant bachelor’s degrees.
The provincial government introduced legislation yesterday that once passed into law will allow Red River, Assiniboine and St. Boniface colleges to create four-year programs and confer degrees on their graduates.

NB mayor says free tuition would encourage procreation, increase population

All arts and science students would have to pay the same tuition, not pay by course

The current issue of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education features an article on degree granting and institutional differentiation in Canada by Mount Royal College president David Marshall. Here is the abstract of Marshall’s article, titled Differentiation by Degrees: System Design and the Changing Undergraduate Environment in Canada:
There has been a significant growth in the [...]

From Library Journal:
Library organizations in both Canada and the United States are protesting major cuts planned in the country’s national science library, known as NRC-CISTI, the acronyms for National Research Council and Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.
A bland notice on the NRC-CISTI web site promises realignment of some resources and programs but doesn’t [...]