The European Research Council (ERC) will award €624 million in Advanced Grants to researchers who win the competition in 2021. The money will be handed to a total of 253 distinguished European academics, according to a news release issued by the European Research Council. In response to the most recentContinue Reading
International students in Australia will be unable to change their subject of study unless they obtain permission from the Minister, according to the new Australian visa criteria. The Australian government, according to NRI Affairs, has modified the Migration Act 1958, and the restrictions for Australian student visa (subclass 500) holdersContinue Reading
The strike and lockout at the University of Lethbridge technically concluded at midnight on Tuesday, but the consequences of the almost six-week work stoppage are influencing how the rest of the semester will unfold. Students will return to class on Wednesday morning after being absent since February 10. What wasContinue Reading
It seemed eerily similar to 2012 in downtown Montreal Tuesday afternoon, when over 1,000 students marched through the streets demanding free university tuition. The protest came ten years to the day after the largest protest of the 2012 Maple Spring. Montreal students went again on strike, this time donning redContinue Reading
Collège Boréal, CEWIL Canada, NSS Canada, and Dynamic Earth announced Tuesday that they will collaborate to start “Projet MOSS” in Sudbury, Ontario, this winter. The Miner Operated Survey System (MOSS) is a piece of underground surveying software that works with a variety of Leica robotic total stations. When performing mark-ups,Continue Reading
Every day seems like you’re in a nightmare that you’re trying to wake up from,’ students say. Russian foreign students studying at post-secondary institutions in Canada are struggling to make ends meet as financial sanctions devastate their country’s economy. At the same time, they are torn as they watch aContinue Reading
It is unknown how many refugees will arrive in Newfoundland or when they will arrive.As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, driving more than one million people – and counting – to escape their homes, Newfoundland and Labrador is preparing for an inflow of refugees. Megan Morris, executive director of theContinue Reading
Since the second week of February, around 500 members of the University of Lethbridge faculty association have been on strike. Students are becoming increasingly concerned about the implications of a prolonged strike for their future. “We are a destination university, and a lot of students come from out of town;Continue Reading
Conestoga College in Kitchener welcomed most of its students back to campus on Monday, when the institution resumed full-time in-person instruction.On Friday, the school announced the change, noting that “a number of processes are in place to continue to protect the health, safety, and well-being of the college community asContinue Reading
TAGKAWAYAN, PHILIPPINES Four teenage teachers, two in the front and two in the rear, drive a brightly decorated wooden trolley down a seldom-used train route in the southern Philippines. The compact, mobile school, which is equipped with a whiteboard, colourful charts, and a stack of books, travels from village toContinue Reading