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Canada’s universities urge Parliament to take action to keep Canada competitive
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It’s time for Canada to learn its lesson about university research
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Queen Elizabeth Scholars program receives $20 million in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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What you need to know to study in Canada as an international student
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University facts
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$38Benterprise
As a $38 billion enterprise in direct expenditures, universities are significant drivers of economic prosperity. They provide employment for close to 310,000 people.
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1.4Mstudents at Canadian universities in 2019
There were about 1,090,000 full-time and 266,000 part-time students in 2019.
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1.8Mnew jobs
Between March 2009 and March 2019, 1,794,500 new jobs were created for university graduates, twice as many as those created for graduates of all other types of postsecondary education combined.
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Presidents' perspective
Equity, diversity and inclusion: the challenge to lead
Text on screen: [Equality, diversity and inclusion: the challenge to lead]
Annette Trimbee, president, University of Winnipeg:
Universities should be leading on a lot of these issues because we have this incredible passion and energy and expertise in our students and our faculty and our staff, and that’s really what we bring to the table. So we’re challenged every day, and I think our students, our faculty, and staff can definitely show us the way, and we just have to let them. It really is, to use a phrase from Rick Hansen, a time to “measure up”. Universities need to set stretch targets, we need to develop action plans, we need to measure progress, and we need to be held to account.
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