Another call for Canada to court more international students
Another report has been issued urging Canada to make a greater effort to attract international students, with this one calling for a doubling of numbers by 2022. The report, released Wednesday, is from...
View ArticleAuthor Elie Wiesel receives UBC honorary degree
Author and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel received an honorary degree from the University of B.C. today. Wiesel wrote the book Night in the 1950s based on his experiences in Auschwitz and other prison...
View ArticleForeign students on the rise: What’s the reality behind the boosterism?
A radical restructuring of Canadian colleges and universities has taken place in the past few decades: The number of foreign students in the country has roughly tripled to more than 250,000. If you...
View ArticleVST “Castle” will convert to economics from spirituality
One of the oldest and most elegant buildings on the University of B.C. campus will soon be switched from the study of spirituality to economics. The stone-faced Vancouver School of Theology, built in...
View ArticleUBC’s outgoing president speaks up on money and diversity
The job of university president is relentless, Stephen Toope says. As head of the 59,000-student University of B.C., Toope met other university presidents who have grown pessimistic and depressed....
View ArticleThe war on Christmas smacks of “anti-culturalism”
’Tis the season to check on which side is winning the “war on Christmas.” Is it the atheists and their supportive cohort of super-secular multiculturalists? Or is it the Christians and their diverse...
View ArticleLouise Arbour wins Vancouver’s Simons Award (video)
Louise Arbour, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, received The Simons Foundation Award this month in Vancouver. “It seems that whatever Louise Arbour undertakes, she enlarges...
View ArticleWhat best motivates immigrants to learn an official Canadian language?
Most people recognize that the immigrants who are most likely to succeed in Canada are those who master either of the country’s official languages. A host of studies back up this conclusion. But...
View ArticleSanta Ono open about his Christian faith
The new president of the University of B.C. is open about being a Christian, an Anglican to be precise. Church for Vancouver, a website headed by Flyn Ritchie, discovered some archived articles in...
View ArticleFormer UBC president nominated as vice-chancellor of University of Cambridge
Former University of B.C. president and vice-chancellor Stephen Toope has been nominated as vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. “I am thrilled to be returning to this...
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