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The Canadian government must crack down on fraud by international students and introduce clear penalties for universities and colleges “issuing misleading documents,” a House of Commons committee recommends. In a report released yesterday,…

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Ontario’s recently passed Bill 33 threatens holistic admission pathways to medical school and could jeopardize the training of future doctors to serve Indigenous, rural, and low-income urban communities, twoprofessors argue in an editorial…

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The northern lights glitter in green, purple and red ribbons as they dance across the Arctic night sky. While beautiful, they can interfere with radar signals that the Canadian Armed Forces use to monitor air traffic in the polar region.…

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The recent Ontario budget’s promise of $21.6 million over three years for Université de Sudbury is “exactly what we were hoping for,” president and vice-chancellor Serge Miville told University Affairs in an interview this week. “This is…

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As the reality of Gen-AI settles across our campuses, many instructors have returned to in-person assessments. In a December 2025 Nature article , Vitomir Kovanović, Abhinava Barthakur, Srećko Joksimović and George Siemens write about how…

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The university is one of the oldest and most iconic institutions in human society. It has also been the source of, and subject to, some of the world’s most profound changes and perturbations as it has evolved from a monastic enclave, to a…

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For nearly the past three decades, Canadian universities and colleges have been required to have an Institutional Research Ethics Board (REB) vet studies and ensure compliance with the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethics and Research…

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Amid the rapid transformations occurring in the North, an interdisciplinary approach that connects knowledge, lands and lived experiences is more essential than ever. University Affairs spoke with Jackie Dawson, a geographer and climate…

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During the first semester of my undergraduate degree, I experienced the full spectrum of teaching strategies. On the one hand, I had a professor who spent three hours delivering content from a textbook to a mostly passive audience.…