Tag: Maclean’s University Rankings

“#How post-secondary students of colour can feel safe in their new home” As a shy, booksmart teenager, I wanted to find a university where I could grow into my own person. For me, that was Western University in London, Ont., two hours away from my home in Toronto. But while my peers were excitedly preparing…

“#This week’s reading: All the fake news you can handle” A crop of courses on fake news have been cropping up in Canadian universities. Many of them pull insights from political science, philosophy, history and psychology. For an assignment in the course Fake News and Alt-Facts: Navigating Post-Truths Politics at Simon Fraser University, Mark Pickup’s…

“#How tuition waivers help B.C. youth in care overcome stubborn systemic barriers” A provincial program that waives tuition can be critical to access higher education, but the initiative—introduced in 2017—is not without its gaps Nathaniel Ap* didn’t know what he wanted to do after high school. At age 17, he was renting a home (which…