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The need for action on Canada's Fundamental Science Review

Read what the university community is saying.
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Canada 150: campus events

Canada’s universities will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary with more than 600 special events. Here is a snapshot of events happening on campuses across the country.
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Research and innovation at Canadian universities

The latest news from #UnivResearch.

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  • $35B
    enterprise

    As a $35 billion enterprise in direct expenditures, universities are significant drivers of economic prosperity. They provide employment for close to 250,000 people.

    Source: Statistics Canada, Financial Information of Universities and Colleges Survey and Labour Force Survey, 2014.
  • 1.7M
    students at Canadian universities in 2014-2015

    There were 979,000 full-time students and 312,000 part-time students in 2014-2015.

    Source: Association of Atlantic Universities, Council of Ontario Universities and individual institutions.
  • 1.4M
    new jobs

    Between March 2008 and March 2016, 1,416,600 new jobs were created for university graduates -- almost triple as many new jobs for college and trades graduates combined.

    Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2008-2016.
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Demand for liberal arts graduates

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People criticize the liberal arts because they think … our graduates aren’t employable.

But in fact, in 2008, when the economic difficulties struck, the people who were employed in Canada were 95 percent of engineering graduates, 94 percent of health profession graduates and 91 percent of liberal arts graduates, social science and humanities graduates.

And if you ask employers about the skills they want, they want exactly those skills which the liberal arts provide.

They teach student to think critically and creatively, to weigh evidence sceptically, to look at more than one perspective or one side of every question.

The late Steve Jobs said, you know, when he unveiled the last piece of technology before he passed, he said that it’s not technology alone, but technology married with the liberal arts that produces the results that makes our hearts sing.

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