No Cockroach at Queen’s this year
The Queen’s Journalreports that the Queen’s University undergraduate students union, the Alma Mater Society, did not hand out the Golden Cockroach this year. It will be interesting to see what this means in the coming year, will landlords be less concerned about getting publicly shamed?…
Alberta Progressive Conservative plan to cut student loan interest
If elected, the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party will cut student loan interest. The party unveiled its post-secondary education platform Monday to a lack of fanfare. Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, standing in front of 200 Tory supporters Monday, also promised to limit annual tuition increases to the rate of…
This is an announcement I could cover
Ontario’s Minister of Research and Innovation John Wilkinson announced $150,000 in new funding for Hamilton’s McMaster University today. I would have loved to cover the announcement – not because it qualifies as "newsworthy" – because it was in a better climate than Hamilton today. Wilkinson made the announcement…
Environmental studies, math applications jump
The Ontario University Application Centre released its application statistics for February last week. According to the February numbers, few programs are seeing a significant rise in applicants this year. While most programs saw modest rises in applicants, both general education and physical education programs dropped by 18 and…
Who killed the (campus) radio star?
Students at the University of Waterloo overwhelmingly voted to end the mandatory student subsidy of CKMS radio. Like many campus radio stations, the UWaterloo station serves as more of a radio station directed to the greater urban community of Kitchener/Waterloo than a station dedicated to students. Not only…
8% of students involved in the sex trade: The Times
I’m having a hard time honestly believing that the number of "students" involved in the sex trade is even close to that high, but according to an article put out by The Times in UK today, this is the case: "A second survey in 2006 showed that number…
Feds pump $163 mil into research
The federal government gave researchers across the country a Valentine’s gift last Thursday with the announcement of $163 million in new funding to establish 11 new “Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research.” The centres are to pursue major discoveries and work to bring them to customers over…
The Oshawa housing battle continues
A group calling itself “concerned Niagara citizens” is distributing a flyer complaining about a proposed apartment building for students. Apparently there is at least one individual who is not satisfied that students are being driven out of the neighbourhoods surrounding the University of Ontario Institute of Technology by…
Donors at Ryerson getting stingy—maybe
Paul Stenton, a vice-president at Ryerson University, says alumni donations to the university have fallen by 5 per cent in the past five years, the student paper the Eyeopenerreported. But Bob Baker, the executive director of university advancement, says they have been growing. Baker said that this has…
Play hooky, go to jail
A mother in England has been sentenced to six weeks in jail for allowing her 13-year-old daughter to play hooky. Ann Watson’s daughter has only showed up for class once in the last nine months. The judge felt that there was no other alternative after a number of…