University Canada West- Victim of growing tuition scam knew exactly where her $37K went — but no one would help her get it back - CBC March 9, 2026
- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW hosts Startup Grind Pitch Battle Royale - Education News Canada March 6, 2026
- University Canada West - UCW ranks first again for most Scopus-indexed publications among private institutions - Education News Canada February 19, 2026
- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW takes second place at 2026 National MBA Games - Education News Canada February 10, 2026
- 181 Conestoga College employees laid off ahead of the holidays - CBC December 18, 2025
- B.C. allocates one-third of international undergraduate seats to private institutions. Here's why that matters - Vancouver Sun November 14, 2025
- B.C. student sues his teachers over plagiarism, judge strikes case - Business in Vancouver November 13, 2025
- Costly Fumbles by a BC College Left Me Stuck, Student Claims - thetyee.ca November 3, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Social media updates and new features to know this week - PR Daily March 31, 2026
- We’re Living in Horrible Conditions for Meaningful Dissent - The New Yorker March 31, 2026
- Australia Threatens Legal Action Over Under-16 Social Media Ban Breaches - PetaPixel March 31, 2026
- Indonesia summons Meta, Google over non-compliance with social media child-ban - Anadolu Ajansı March 31, 2026
- Indonesia warns Meta, Google over youth social media - news.az March 31, 2026
- Is Australia's teen social media ban failing? Meta, TikTok, Google, Snap, others face probe as access continues for most under-16s - WION March 31, 2026
- Australia threatens to sue social media company for ignoring under-16s ban - Yahoo News New Zealand March 31, 2026
- PCB slaps hefty fine on Naseem Shah for social media post on Maryam Nawaz - Al Jazeera March 31, 2026
Monthly Archives: November 2016
The Hobo Ethical Code
This is beautiful. From Open Culture: 1. Decide your own life; don’t let another person run or rule you. 2. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times. 3. Don’t take … Continue reading
Where are the experts on *who we are*, in the social sciences, or in the arts, … anywhere?
Over at Research as a Second Language: Writing, Representation, and the Crisis of Social Science, Danish writer Thomas Basbøll does not view this question as an academic one. Neither would he give “both” as his answer. In his stirring dissection of the United … Continue reading
Elitism in the classroom
Professor Mayhew’s recent take on the topic: Teaching is transactional. The instructor is not feeding information to the students, teaching them that information, but interacting with them. A third element is the text in the class. The text is not … Continue reading
Hence, teaching manners matters
In a blog post this morning called “A Raging Snowflake,” my good friend Clarissa writes: Remember the Oppressed Tiffany, a very special snowflake whose “narrative was erased by the entire field of academia” when a hapless prof asked her to … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, courtesy, cross-posted from basil.CA, for educators, for students
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