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Picketing cancels some classes at SFU
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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WOO Vancouver The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Nov. 07 2012, 12:12 PM EST Last updated Wednesday, Nov. 07 2012, 12:12 PM EST Support staff at Simon Fraser University are picketing at all three campuses on Wednesday, prompting the cancellation
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Western universities come out on top: Maclean's
Montreal :: Canada | 7 months ago
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British Columbia's Simon Fraser University takes the top spot, same as last year, in the comprehensive category for schools that have a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs followed by the University of Victoria in second place, and
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Lower costs lure U.S. college students to Canada, UK
Montreal :: Canada | 7 months ago
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More American teenagers are thinking about picking up a passport and heading abroad for their college years as a way of attending a top-rated school at a lower cost, Canadian and British college recruiters say. More than 10,000 Americans are
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Tutors, support staff at B.C. post-secondary institutions take job action
Kamloops :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Teaching assistants at the University of B.C. and support staff at other post-secondary schools around the province are stepping up job action while employees at two institutions have yet to ratify agreements. Local 2278 plan to picket a single
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Panel wants limit on Florida 2-plus-2 tuition
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | 7 months ago
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Fla. (AP) Gov. Rick Scott 's higher education task force on Monday tentatively agreed to recommend holding the line on tuition for certain "two-plus-two" students who start at community colleges and then complete their degrees at universities. The
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UBC teaching assistants set to strike
Toronto :: Canada | 7 months ago
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They served the university 72-hour notice Friday afternoon after voting 76% in favour of strike action on Wednesday. The union has been in negotiations for more than two years and in mediation since April...Trish Everett says the call for the strike
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CUPE serves strike notice on UBC and Vancouver Community College for Monday
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Teaching assistants at the University of B.C. and support staff at Vancouver Community College have served 72-hour strike notice and will begin job action on Monday. The workers at both institutions are members of the Canadian Union of Public
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DimeWatch dropped: Website that rates attractiveness of female students taken down
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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A website created by a University of B.C. athlete that contained lewd comments and invited users to visit a Twitter account to rate the attractiveness of female students was taken down Thursday. Watch, which encouraged people to post pictures and
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UBC unplugs Dime Watch website, Twitter account that charted 'perfect 10' girls
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 months ago
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A Twitter account dedicated to highlighting dimes at UBC's campus was taken down Thursday. Watch , which featured tweets referring to women as dimes, a slang term for a girl rated a perfect 10. The Twitter account was also alleged to have posted
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The great experiment: Quest University's radical step in higher education
Squamish :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Story Toran Savjord, vice-president, operations and development of Quest University and leader of this exercise, has assured me and my 13 classmates that making our way through the forest in this manner will be worthwhile. We're meant to reflect on
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