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New innovation network to connect business, colleges
Apr 25, 2013 - Colleges in B.C. and the Yukon have partnered with the BC Justice Institute to create a new network that will help businesses and organizations tap the expertise of post-secondary schools to help them with research and innovation.... Full Article
Merck gives cash injection to B.C. drug research
Emily Carr art school plugged into growing creative economy
Better links between school and work needed to improve skills: report
SFU program to create enterprises that solve business and social issues
Audain donates $5 million to Emily Carr University
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National Research Council becomes business-friendly
May 07, 2013 - The National Research Council (NRC) has completed its transformation into business-friendly research and... Full Article
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SFU program to create enterprises that solve business
Mar 26, 2013 - The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University is launching a new program designed to bring a... Full Article
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Emily Carr art school plugged into growing creative
Apr 09, 2013 - Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art + Design ‘leading the way’ by producing new... Full Article
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New innovation network to connect business, colleges
Apr 25, 2013 -
Colleges in B.C. and the Yukon have partnered with the BC Justice Institute to create a new network that will help businesses and organizations...
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Merck gives cash injection to B.C. drug research
Apr 22, 2013 -
Pharmaceutical giant Merck will provide $4 million to fund life sciences research centres in B.C., Ontario and Quebec, the company announced today....
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Emily Carr art school plugged into growing creative economy
Apr 09, 2013 -
Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art + Design ‘leading the way’ by producing new generation of creative leaders
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Better links between school and work needed to improve skills: report
Mar 27, 2013 -
Canada's education system is strong but need stronger links between high school, post-secondary and the workforce, according to a Conference Board ...
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SFU program to create enterprises that solve business and social issues
Mar 26, 2013 -
The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University is launching a new program designed to bring a multidisciplinary approach to solving...
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Audain donates $5 million to Emily Carr University
Mar 08, 2013 -
Emily Carr University of Art + Design announced March 7 that philanthropist, art collector and Polygon chairman Michael Audain is donating $5...
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VCC reaches tentative labour deal
Feb 28, 2013 -
After 15 months of bargaining, Vancouver Community College and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4627 have reached a tentative...
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SFU Beedie faculty’s social media research ranks high
Feb 22, 2013 -
Scientific database ScienceDirect has released a list of "hottest articles" that include two on social media by faculty at Simon Fraser...
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The case for merit pay as an effective way to improve education
Feb 05, 2013 -
Alberta's education minister Jeff Johnson got the attention of the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) when he recently mused about introducing...
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Sauder MBA jumps 25 places in Financial Times ranking
Jan 29, 2013 -
The Sauder School of Business MBA program at the University of British Columbia (UBC) has jumped 25 places in the 2013 Financial Times Global MBA...
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Feds plan to clamp down on student visa fraud
Jan 29, 2013 -
But lawyer and author doubt proposed changes would deter immigration system abuse
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Victoria to pump $113 million into new Emily Carr campus
Jan 24, 2013 -
The B.C. government will invest $113 million into helping Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD) build a new $134 million, 286,300 square-...
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SFU business students win top honours in national contest
Jan 24, 2013 -
Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Beedie School of Business captured the Academic School of the Year award at the prestigious JDC West case...
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Victoria invests in skills training at Kwantlen
Jan 21, 2013 -
The B.C. government announced January 18 that it is investing $733,006 in new skills training equipment at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)....
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Feds give B.C. university research projects $33m boost
Jan 16, 2013 -
Three B.C. universities will receive $33 million in research money from Ottawa for projects ranging from stem cell research to an underwater...
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Canada’s universities need more accountability, not more money
Jan 08, 2013 -
A great number of the public documents from universities are glitzy advertisements about the “good things” that happen on campus....
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Local private college countersues after closure
Dec 18, 2012 -
Royal Canadian Institute of Technology alleges provincial government agency needlessly shut down the post-secondary business and interrupted its...
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Chip Wilson and Lululemon to fund Richmond design school
Dec 11, 2012 -
Lululemon Athletica Inc. founder Chip Wilson is partnering with Lululemon, the province and Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) to build a $36...
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CUPE accuses SFU of negotiating in bad faith
Dec 07, 2012 -
The Canadian Union of Public Employees has filed a bad faith bargaining complaint against Simon Fraser University, and a hearing before the BC...
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UBC School of Economics adding new international degree program
Dec 06, 2012 -
The University of British Columbia has announced an expansion of its School of Economics that will add 10 new faculty members, more than 300 new...
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“Intense” bargaining culminates in framework deal for CUPE members
Dec 04, 2012 -
After three days of what CUPE describes as "intense" bargaining, a provincial framework deal was reached late Sunday night by the College and...
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BCIT students call for labour dispute resolution
Nov 28, 2012 -
With classes cancelled today due to a strike by instructors and support staff, students at the BC Institute of Technology (BCIT) are calling on...
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Post-secondary institutions increasingly eyeing Surrey market for expansion
Nov 27, 2012 -
The rapidly growing area’s younger demographic and dearth of post-secondary options are convincing SFU, Kwantlen and private institutions...
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CUPE job action continues at VCC
Nov 20, 2012 -
Canadian Union of Public Employees picketers shut down Vancouver Community College and the British Columbia Institute of Technology yesterday in...
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B.C. mining sector helps build new UBC earth sciences centre
Nov 19, 2012 -
B.C.'s mining sector has invested heavily in a new $75 million earth sciences centre at the University of British Columbia that it hopes will help ...
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Striking SFU and VCC workers to rally downtown today
Nov 07, 2012 -
Striking workers from Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Vancouver Community College (VCC) have announced a rally downtown today.The Canadian Union ...
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SFU support workers plan no-holds-barred, all-campus strike
Nov 02, 2012 -
Support workers at Simon Fraser University have scheduled an all-out, all-campus withdrawal of services on November 7, and members of CUPE 3338...
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CUPE strike action continues for post-sec support workers
Nov 01, 2012 -
Support workers at Simon Fraser University are expected to hold a one-day walkout at the school's main campus in Burnaby today. Similar strikes...
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Royal Roads signs deal with CUPE
Oct 30, 2012 -
In the latest chapter of the CUPE saga, support workers at Royal Roads University reached a tentative agreement yesterday, as yet to be ratified...
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Tentative agreements reached at TRU, UBC, UNBC
Oct 25, 2012 -
The province has announced three more tentative agreements reached with locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at Thompson Rivers ...
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UBC clerical workers ratify labour deal
Oct 19, 2012 -
Members of CUPE Local 2950 voted yesterday to ratify last week's tentative collective agreement that covers its 1,500 clerical, hospital and...
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B.C. students to get access to free electronic textbooks
Oct 17, 2012 -
Post-secondary students in B.C. could end up saving a lot of money on textbooks by going digital.The B.C. government is making 40 widely used...
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Fast-growing B.C. kindergarten franchisor expands to Alberta
Oct 12, 2012 -
Fast-growing B.C. franchisor Core Education & Fine Arts (CEFA) announced October 11 that it has expanded outside the province for the first...
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Ocean research observatory gets $9 million boost from province
Oct 04, 2012 -
A Victoria-based marine observatory is getting $9 million from the B.C. government to help fund its research.The Ocean Networks Canada (ONC)...
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Teaching assistants at five B.C. universities to strike
Oct 02, 2012 -
Teachers’ assistants at five universities in B.C. have served 72-hour strike notice.
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SFU Public Square and Vancouver Foundation engage local business community
Sep 21, 2012 -
Yesterday members of the Metro Vancouver business community gathered at the Terminal City Club for a luncheon and discussion about the role of...
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$133m pharmacy science building and medical exhibit opens at UBC
Sep 19, 2012 -
The University of British Columbia officially opened a new $133 million Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences building Tuesday. ...
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New digital animation and VFX school will fill local demand and raise standards: principal
Sep 18, 2012 -
DigiBC agrees more program spots needed but says new schools are not the answer
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SFU support workers readying for strike
Sep 11, 2012 -
Support workers at Simon Fraser University will take a strike vote between September 25 and 27 at the university’s three campuses after two...
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Textbook rental firm sees opportunity in colleges
Sep 04, 2012 -
Big Mama aims to help students save money with its alternative to buying textbooks
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Education Quest: innovative business plan drives private university growth
Aug 07, 2012 -
Marketing a single degree offering at a school where tuition is five times that of UBC is one of many challenges for Squamish university
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SFU poised to join top U.S. collegiate sports association
Jul 31, 2012 -
Simon Fraser University (SFU) will learn tomorrow if it will get to be the first non-U.S. school accredited in the respected National Collegiate...
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Vancouver scientists refining childhood brain cancer treatment
Jul 26, 2012 -
Collaborative research involving the BC Cancer Agency and funded in part by Genome BC is already bearing fruit in the form of potential new...
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