Med school support staff on strike
As future doctors return to the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) in Sudbury this fall, significantly fewer staff are there to greet them.
Haitian students rebuild their lives in Quebec
For most students, a bachelor’s degree is a way to secure a better future for themselves.But for 10 Haitian students at the Université du Québec à Rimouski, it’s a way to contribute to their country’s future.
UQAR, a public university about 300 kilometres north of Quebec City, entered a partnership with the Université d’État d’Haïti in Port-au-Prince after the January earthquake that devastated the country, said Mario Bélanger, a campus communications officer who worked on the program.
La Cite Collegiale keeps building
La Cité Collégiale, a French-language vocational college in Ottawa, recently announced its new campus in Orleans would be ready to welcome new students this month.
The Minto Trades Centre, where construction courses will be held, can accommodate between 350 and 750 students, according to the school’s department of recruitment and communications.
U of T entrepreneur faces the music
Aidan Nulman, “mysterious vagabond” to his friends, is a 22-year-old University of Toronto student from Montreal. Boasting an iTunes library of 28,000 songs and a high school career as drummer in his punk rock band, Misportrayed, Nulman sounds like every other music-loving young adult.
The difference: Nulman has ventured into the revolutionary trade of social networking.
Facebook and Twitter have a new counterpart, created specifically with musicians in mind— Youphonics.com.
Online universities’ validity questioned
Worrying about the validity of an online degree is something Svetlana Shkolyar is familiar with. “[I] worry that PhD admissions committees will question its legitimacy,” said Shkolyar, who is doing a master’s degree in space studies at the University of North Dakota (UND) online.
