Changing postsecondary education must be a collective process

Globe & Mail, 09/08/12

The Ontario government recently released a discussion paper on postsecondary-education reform. Among the topics on the agenda: system transformation; a potential move in some programs to three-year degrees; greater use of “technology-enabled” learning; and a much simpler mechanism for transferring course credits between college and university.

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The maple leaf returns to Mars

Canadian science instrument part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission Longueuil, Quebec, August 6, 2012 — NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) touched down on the ...