Policy
We need to move away from facile handwaving and towards a culture of evidence-based argumentation.
With a controversial pick leading the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, don’t hold your breath on big ideas or transformative change for the sector.
Quebec’s universities will see their operating grants increase under a new funding policy that uses a simplified calculation formula.
24 researchers will soon join Canadian universities from institutions around the world – many of them expats looking for a way home.
The nature of universities as organizations helps explain why so much symbolic management takes place when they are faced with thorny subjects.
An injection of $3 billion for research and expressed support for the “next generation of researchers” figures prominently in the federal budget.
New Zealand’s chief scientist Peter Gluckman was among a trio of advisers offering their insights at the recent AAAS annual meeting.
Creso Sá looks at what the recent superclusters announcement really means for universities and academic research.
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Legislation in three provinces mandates that postsecondary institutions adopt stand-alone sexual violence policies starting this year.
Protests like the March for Science can be cathartic, but Canada’s science community and government should both ditch spin and open the lines of communication.
Researchers at universities across the country are struggling, says Dr. Woodgett of Toronto’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute.
Canada’s science minister says she understands the research community and wants to hear its concerns.
There’s growing respect for a collaborative kind of research activity that starts with a two-way exchange of information between researchers and the community