In an unprecedented housing shortage, Canadian and international students are facing a crisis that puts their studies – and ...

For Canadian academics who want to create outside of their discipline – whether that’s to write novels for the mass market, ...

Editor’s note: the interviews for this article were conducted before the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election was announced. Asa McKercher has written, co-written and edited multiple books ...

Shining a humorous light on some of the tasks that academics deal with on a regular basis.

When most people hear the term “research lab,” their minds often jump to natural sciences – envisioning spaces filled with test tubes, microscopes and scientific experiments. However, labs in the ...

Group projects, in theory, sound like a good idea. Students work together to co-create a product and in doing so gain practice working with others. The workload for students should arguably be lower ...

Here’s the good news: faculty num­bers are up significantly in Canada and should continue to rise. The not so good news: student enrolment has climbed even faster, far outpacing fac­ulty growth. Those ...

The Spec ‘Confused about Canada’: international student enrolment down 30 per cent at U of M Manitoba universities and colleges are receiving fewer applications from overseas owing to the “chill” of a ...

ChatGPT is demonstrating the disruptive potential of AI for higher education. The challenge is to identify how to use this disruption to advance learning.

Welcome to UA’s new column: The Many Faces.

Some are fine-tuning existing programs while others are planning extensive online and on-campus health promotion campaigns.