Did you know, Students with disabilities are protected by law in Canada? Pretty good eh? All universities will provide some sort of support for students with learning disabilities.A wonderful resource to get you started is Youth 2 Youth, a clearing house of information including University readiness checklists.  To find the link to a specific universities [...]

One of my favorites (I graduated from here) is coming to town.

“Any student who secures a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree from any university in Quebec will obtain a certificate of selection to become a citizen of Canada ,” said Mr. Charest, according to The Times of India. “We have the right to select our own citizens. We are doing this because we have a shortage [...]

This year’s Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings sees the slight erosion of US supremacy in the number of institutions in the top 200 as the table illustrates:

National honours: most institutions in top 200

2008
2009

Country
Region
200
200

US
North America
58
54

UK
Europe
29
29

Canada
North America
12
11

Japan
Asia
10
11

Netherlands
Europe
11
11

Germany
Europe
11
10

Australia
Australasia
9
9

Switzerland
Europe
7
7

China
Asia
6
6

Belgium
Europe
5
5

Hong Kong
Asia
4
5

Sweden
Europe
4
5

France
Europe
4
4

South Korea
Asia
3
4

Denmark
Europe
3
3

Israel
Asia
3
3

New Zealand
Australasia
3
3

India
Asia
2
2

Ireland
Europe
2
2

Norway
Europe
1
2

Russia
Europe
1
2

Singapore
Asia
2
2

At the same time, The UK has ascended to the top of the [...]

I have been tracking universities use of Youtube for some time. Youtube announced that they 45 new Universities, including Cambridge University, Open University, Bocconi University and Open University of Catalonia housed in their Youtube EDU channel, making 200 universities serving up 40,000 videos in various categories:

Business
Education
Engineering
Fine Arts & Design
Health & Medicine
History
Humanities
Journalism & Media
Law
Literature
Mathematics
Science
Social Science

Stanford [...]

SO you want to study business, do you?
Well what exactly is business?
Wikipedia does a nice break down of the field and the collegeboard offers a more specific look at the major in US college while the  British Council outlines the UK approach in their Fact Sheet. As a fan of the new media, I went [...]

Oh canada! What a great place to go to university:

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Random majors for random times:
Sure you could study business or nursing and land a job. But why not pursue something really different. Today I begin a series of articles highlighting things you maybe never thought of studying–some typical, some not so typical. Today’s take: Viniculture.
What exactly is that? It is the student or everything to do with [...]

Here is a wonderful chart of IB recogintion policies in Canada. Did you know over two dozen Canadian universities have scholarships for IB diploma students?ib-recognition-canada

TVO is sponsoring a competition to find best lecturer in Canadian universities. Today we focus on Business, economics and Management.
James Appleyard
2009 | Department of Management - University of Toronto - Mississauga |James Appleyard is Assistant Professor (part-time) in the Department of Management of the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he has taught three undergraduate courses since 2004 [...]