A shattered dream or a dream yet to come true?
Canada is a country with a lack of jobs for the new immigrants, regardless of how qualified they are. Many immigrants are highly educated in…
education
Refusing to be a grown up
At the beginning of February, Carson Jerema, former Editor-in-Chief of the Manitoban, wrote an article for the Winnipeg Free Press criticizing students who choose to…
Government’s role in higher learning
Government must recognize that higher learning is crucial to a country’s success. As chair of the Government Post-Secondary Education Caucus, I have met with many…
Proposals for advancing higher education
Though post-secondary education is a provincial jurisdiction, the federal government has an important role to play. I don’t need to spew out any rhetoric on…
Bill Gates looks to improve online education through grants
Bill Gates has recently announced in his 2010 annual letter that he will be offering grants from his foundations to further the usage of online…
Look at me, I met a deadline!
Those of you reading the papers may have noticed that there is quite the debate going on in the editorial section of the Winnipeg Free…
Universities need to learn from Facebook and Twitter
The Internet is constantly becoming more advanced, but is taken for granted as a passive tool for gathering information and being entertained. Social networking, one…
Undermining the real lessons
Right now, most U of M students aren’t too concerned with exams. Having just returned from winter break, for most of us the next major…
“What’s a paragraph?”
It was mid-September. I had just set off from my house that morning on foot, living only a couple of blocks away from my practicum…
Ben Clarkson’s guide to the perfect C+ paper
As an alumnus of the University of Manitoba and as a former resident of Tache Hall, I know a little something about under-achievement. The A+…