Cheaters ruin schools’ rep
A recent study in Maclean’s magazine is questioning whether or not universities are losing their academic recognition and value.
Research done in 2007 indicates more than half of university students admitted to some form of cheating.
Three years later, it does not appear the situation has changed. According to a report done at the University of Guelph, 53 per cent of Canadian students have been caught cheating and rates are as high as 70 per cent in the United States.
Equity services questions risqué content of eng magazine
The University of Manitoba’s equity service office will be taking part in an investigation after the publication of an engineering magazine with some suggestive content.
Three times a year, the University of Manitoba Engineering Society (UMES) publishes a student magazine called the Red Lion. However, once a year the magazine produces an issue with a satirical, more risqué spin titled the Red Loin.
Speaking from behind the veil
A Muslim woman has filed a complaint with Quebec’s Human Rights Commission after a provincially supported Montreal college expelled her when she refused to remove her niqab.
Salam Elmenyawi of the Muslim Council of Montreal identified the woman as Naamah.
Naamah, who was formerly a pharmacist in Egypt, immigrated to Quebec and is a permanent resident. She was taking a French class at CÉGEP St–Laurent.
UTSC students to decide fate of Pan Am pool
Four months after the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus learned it would be a host site of the 2015 Pan American Games, students are heading to the polls to determine the fate of the $140 million Olympic-sized pool required for competition.
According to the Scarborough Campus’ Student Union, from March 17-19 UTSC students will face a referendum asking them if they agree to a levy on tuition fees to support the construction of the recreation complex.
Quebec students may face tuition hike
Former Parti Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard has openly denounced PQ policy and supported Liberal principles to raise university tuition fees. This topic has been on the table ever since the Liberal government decided to remove the tuition fee freeze.
“Twenty years . . . and the Liberals are up to something again,” said Gabrielle Lemieux, vice-president (communications) at the National Youth Committee for the Parti Quebecois (CNJPQ), in a French interview translated to English.
