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One afternoon in the spring of 2007, teacher Peter Hill was recording marks when he confided to a colleague that one of his Grade 12 English students was in danger [...]

Almost every day for the past few years, Meg Martin has spent three hours on public transit, commuting to and from the University of Calgary. She looks forward to Wednesdays, [...]

It's mid-January, a couple of weeks after the Christmas break, and Mark Woodcroft, a fourth-year biochemistry major at Trent University, is hanging out in the lab with professor even Rafferty, [...]

In 2004, the Ontario government commissioned former premier Bob Rae to prepare a report on post-secondary education. Raising concerns about the quality of undergraduate education, Rae called on Canada's largest […]

Is governments scale back their funding to higher education, an immense financial burden is falling onto the shoulders of students and their parents. Investment management company Trimark estimates that this [...]

It's that time of year again. The days are growing shorter, the nights are getting cooler--and families are gearing up for another year at school. But while many kids are [...]

The boredom drove them to it. The endless nights with nothing for the youth of Grand Bank, Nfld., to do but hang around the outport's one restaurant or linger on [...]

Beneath the lofty Victorian moldings, the tables had been laid as usual with white damask. Fine Villeroy & Boch china gleamed in the sunlight streaming through the ancient casements of [...]

Each university in the Maclean's survey has a unique history, a distinct mission and its own particular strengths. The University of Prince Edward Island takes pride in the fact that [...]

It was a beautiful October day as a group of about 20 high-school students and their parents milled about outside the offices of the faculty of engineering at the University […]

Max Weinert graduated from J. L. Ilsley High School in Halifax last spring with a 98 per cent average. The previous fall, Weinert had applied to six universities-Dalhousie and Acadia […]

In September 2005, 25 students from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., and 25 students from Zhejiang University in China began the first year of a new joint computer science [...]

Axe you smarter than a 10th grader? Try this math problem: Nick wants to pave the rectangular patio of his new house. The patio is 5.25 metres long and three [...]

If you can look past the unusually low-pressure sales pitches from the attendants at the booths for auto manufacturers such as Mazda, Ford and Volkswagen, you'd swear this auto show [...]

University of Alberta (1912) Edmonton, Alta. (403) 492-3067/3062 Dean: Lewis Klar http://www.law.ualberta.ca Full-time students: 505 The faculty's affiliation with the Health Law Institute offers opportunities to study and research in [...]

As tuition climbs, students brace for a high-debt future The coffee and doughnuts were free, the staff was friendly and the balloons gave a festive look to the recent open [...]

On a sunny Saturday in late March, White Rose nurseries in Unionville, Ont., just north of Toronto, is as busy as a department store during the pre-Christmas rush. Inside, gardeners [...]

After spending the day dog-sledding on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in January, 1995, Richard and Diane Smith and their two children, Alex and Skye, had almost reached [...]

BEFORE YOU GO Before you even set foot on campus, get your wallet ready. Universities charge between $60 and $100 to process your application. It's a little cheaper in Ontario [...]

The invitation was modest. Printed on plain white paper, it was billed simply as an evening to 'learn how to cope confidently with cherry tomatoes.' But for 60 smart Queen's [...]

A century ago, Henry Ford built his first automobile-a rickety, lightweight affair powered by a two-cylinder motor. Others had preceded him, but Ford was arguably one of the most influential [...]

Just as home computer users are becoming comfortable with home pages, hotlinks and all the other technobabble associated with the World Wide Web, cyberjunkies are busily working on a new [...]

In 1816, William Agnew and Isabella Cail met and fell in love on a British ship headed for the timber-rich lands of Atlantic Canada. With Isabella's father and seven siblings [...]

When Paul Meadows of Halifax needed to know how tall his 100 cherry tomato plants would grow, he didn't turn to a plant encyclopedia or seed catalogue for the answer. [...]

The article presents information relating to secondary education facilities in Canada. More than 70,000 students participated in surveys, including the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Canadian Undergraduate Survey Consortium (CUSC), regarding their undergraduate experience. The results of the surveys are discussed.

The article discusses conditions and faculty at various universities in Canada. While the federal government has invested generously in the Canada Research Chair program and other research-related initiatives, per-student funding has been plummeting across the country. Take Alberta, a province awash in petro-dollars; but in terms of per-student funding, it ranks seventh out of 10 provinces. Carl Amrhein, provost and vice-president, academic, at the University of Alberta, admits that "Christmas came early this year," referring to Premier Ralph Klein's bonanza announcements of almost $5 billion for higher education. In recent years, enrollment has gone through the roof, but faculty hiring has barely budged. This year, it should come as no surprise that several presidents of large research-intensive universities have expressed deep and public concern about the undergraduate experience. Philanthropy is the engine that helps drive the schools ahead. This year, once again, the mining magnate Seymour Schulich decided to take matters into his own hands. First, Schulich decided to give $25 million to the University of Calgary for its engineering faculty. But he made it clear to Calgary's rumpled, straight-talking executive head that there would be no gift unless David Hancock, Alberta's minister of advanced education, anted up as well. INSET: GRADING THE GRADERS.

This article presents an overall view of the challenges faced by Canadian higher education, with the largest incoming class ever, and an unprecedented demand for quality. Picture this: it's a hot, muggy morning in Kingston, Ont., the day after Labour Day -- a day more summer than fall. Just the sort of morning when you could be forgiven for playing hooky down by Lake Ontario, watching the white sailboats meander on the horizon, reading a book under the trees. Certainly, if you were one of the thousands of first-year Queen's students who had just spent the long weekend cooped up in the family car, inching bumper-to-bumper along the 401, lugging your baggage -- emotional and physical -- into residence, you might be tempted. This year, all across the country, high-school students played the largest and most dramatic game of musical chairs in Canadian history. How tough was it to get in? It depended on the program and the university. By May, when the phone was ringing off the hook, McGill University posted an open letter on the Web, aimed at frantic Ontario families: the university, it said, had "agonized over many of the refusals" issued in recent weeks. Take the West Coast: this fall, no student whose average was less than 80 per cent would have found a seat in arts or science at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser or the University of Victoria. Along with Ontario and Alberta, B.C. is facing mega-demand from university-bound students -- and it's the province with the lowest number of university seats per capita. Preserving quality, preparing for the future, innovating at the same time -- it's a pretty tall order. These are the challenges keeping many gifted university leaders awake at night: attracting and keeping the right students, in the right numbers; attracting and keeping the right faculty, in the right numbers.

Focuses on the increase in campus recruiting in Canada by corporations as of May 10, 1999. Recruitment changes, including the selection of first- and second-year students to internships and co-op programs to breed company loyalty; Reasons, including need for high-technology talent; What students look for in job selection; Examples of the job selections of Ka-Ping Yee and others; Job conditions in Canada; Comments from Roger Martin dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and others.

Examines the costs of attending college or university in Canada as of 1997. The increasing amounts of financial burden falling on parents as governments scale back their funding; Ways to save money for college; Investments; Registered education savings plans; In-trust accounts; Scholarships; Loans; Government loans; Private bank loans.

Looks at parents' and students' innovations for coping with the Canadian government's budget cuts in education which lead to downsizing in school teachers. Includes working with private industry for providing early childhood education to working parents' children; Schools' forging stronger contact with parents. INSET: Playground mediation, by Merle MacIsaac..

Describes the emergence of a new women's spirituality movement that is making itself felt around the world in a variety of sacred and profane ways. The furor over God being played by a woman in the 6th-century York Mystery Plays in England; This spiritual emergence not an organized movement; A new generation of Catholic feminist scholars; More details. INSETS: A figure of outrage or inspiration? by M.M.;A medieval superstar (Hildegard of Bingen), by M.M..

Asserts that a university degree is just the beginning in the competitive job market of the 1990s and offers advice to graduates on what employers are looking for. How companies are rethinking the ways they do business; The need for applicants to be adaptable; The trend to hire on an `as needed' basis; The need for interpersonal, conceptual and computer skills; How Janet Soles located her private investigator position; Other examples.

The article focuses on high school students who are applying to universities and colleges without the required writing and math skills. Particular attention is given to what universities can do to help them succeed. Article topics include the discrepancies between international and Canadian college students, the low grades of students in math and science classes, and statistics on the number of Canadian students enrolled in universities and colleges.

The article discusses the increasing use of contract academic staff at Canadian universities. Jim Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), comments that colleges don't pay contract staff the rates paid to tenured or full-time, they often don't get benefits, and they don't have the same access to offices and other services. The president of the University of Toronto, David Naylor, commented on the trend.

Presents a sampling of alumni of Canada's upper-crust and private schools. Prominent Canadians including Hume Cronyn, Edgar Bronfman, and Edward (Ted) Rogers; Listing by institutions including Brentwood College School, Albert College, and Ridley College.

The article profiles community outreach programs offered at several Canadian colleges and universities. Queen's University (U) partners teams of first-year science students with local community groups such as hospitals, charities, or museums. The University of Windsor's Volunteer Internship Program (VIP) gives students career-related work experience by staffing local non-profit agencies with student volunteers. Programs at Brock U, Acadia U, and U of Winnipeg are also mentioned.

Several entrepreneurship programs at Canadian colleges and universities are profiled. The Simon Fraser Business Concept Competition at Simon Fraser University is a venture idea contest for students. Entrepreneurship@UBC offers a Voucher Services program to University of British Columbia students, providing 5,000 of business services like grant writing, market research, and business planning. The University of Manitoba has a product-development course in its food science major.

The article discusses Canadian high school students who enter universities, indicating that although these students are some of the best educated students in the world, they often lack the skills for post-secondary education. Other topics include results of the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and tutors hired to help Canadian college students.

Presents academic briefs describing several Canadian law schools. University of Alberta; University of British Columbia; University of Calgory; Dalhousie University; McGill University; Osgoode Hill Law School; Others.

Focuses on the homophobia faced by gay teenagers in Canadian schools. The violence and harassment experienced by Christian Hernandez, a gay teen from Niagara Falls, Ontario; Programs which are trying to help gay teenagers, including the Triangle Program and Toronto's Human Sexuality Program; Efforts to fight homophobia in schools across Canada; Resistance to the programs in some school districts.

Focuses on the efforts of community residents in Bellevue Manor, Ottawa to construct a park and playground for their children. Holding of bake sales, garage sales, car washes and dart tournaments as fundraisers; Monetary donation of Youth Service Canada; Involvement of community children.

Focuses on the status of the education of college students in Canada. Students' discovery of the financial art of survival; Need for the government to increase subsidies for colleges; Efforts of universities to introduce assistance programs; Concerns on how to pay student loans.

Shows how gardening is big business in Canada. The Victoria Day long weekend which is a boon for the gardening industry; The busy nurseries; The competition in the gardening industry due to the mass retailers such as Canadian Tire and The Home Depot; The many ways in which Canadians spend their money including landscaping, hand tools, pots, and other paraphernalia; The gardening books; New periodicals including `Gardening Life.'

This article presents a chart comparing the salaries of some Canadian university presidents with other professions.

The article focuses the research methods used in three surveys of Canadian college students: the National Survey of Student Engagement, the Canadian Undergraduate Survey Consortium, and the Maclean's University Graduate Survey. Difficulties with gaining university approval of the Maclean's study are discussed in depth.

Considers the problems of the topic of religion in the public schools in Canada. How Christmas and Easter are `secular pause days' and referred to as winter and spring breaks; The subject of religion as taboo as the subject of sex used to be; Christmas pageants in schools not allowed; The popularity of home schooling in Canada for religious reasons.

Looks at educational assistance that is available on the World Wide Web. Tutors, such as Nancy Dourian, who volunteer via Web sites; Web sites designed for children, such as Howard's Links 4 Kids; Web site contact information.