El proyecto Online Multicultural and International Xperience (OMIX), un programa gratuito en línea con duración de dos semanas del Tecnológico de Monterrey, busca reunir a estudiantes de diversas nacionalidades para que colaboren en la discusión de un dilema ético.
Los participantes tomarán un taller virtual del 18 al 29 de septiembre de 2017 en el que debatirán un dilema ético de interés general, con una visión multicultural y multidisciplinaria. Los estudiantes podrán:
"A group of college instructors in British Columbia has begun to publicly criticize what they feel is an increasing pressure to pass international students in their courses.
"Demonstrators came from across the country to gather at the White House in support of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as toddlers and children. Five years ago today, President Obama signed an executive order protecting them from deportation. It's known as DACA - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
"Today, we are on the cusp of opening up another, powerful new data set... with revolutionary potential for our understanding and stewardship of the system, and for improving student outcomes," writes Martin Hicks for the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.
Whether delving into the development of advanced medical technologies, or investigating new uses for farming waste, researchers need state-of-the-art labs and equipment to make discoveries and to innovate. Today at Laurentian University, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, acknowledged this with a Government of Canada investment of more than $52 million in 220 new infrastructure projects at 51 universities across Canada.
She began her academic journey working part time as a secretary — typing and taking dictation and studying at home. She came to El Paso in 1971 as a visiting associate professor. And she became president of the University of Texas at El Paso in 1988, taking over a small university with not quite 15,000 students.
Over the past five years, applied research activity has seen a significant boom in colleges and institutes across Canada that, now more than ever, play an essential role in the country’s innovation ecosystem. According to CICan’s 2015-2016 applied research survey this clear trend is driven by increasing industry partnerships but remains limited by insufficient federal research funding.
When there are debates about the world's top performing education systems, the names that usually get mentioned are the Asian powerhouses such as Singapore and South Korea or the Nordic know-alls, such as Finland or Norway.
But with much less recognition, Canada has climbed into the top tier of international rankings.
In the most recent round of international Pisa tests, Canada was one of a handful of countries to appear in the top 10 for maths, science and reading.
A dozen higher education organizations expressed serious concerns over a possible change in the student visa program, saying it could deter the most talented international students from applying to schools in the United States. This month, The Washington Post reported that senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security were discussing a proposal to require foreign students to reapply for permission to stay in the United States every year.
About 75,000 people who applied for New York's first-in-the-nation tuition-free college program are finding out whether they will start the fall semester without a tuition bill to pay. "It feels absolutely terrific," Binghamton University student Natan Nassir, of Great Neck, said after learning Thursday that the state will pick up his tab for any tuition not covered by other financial aid. New York set aside $87 million for the Excelsior Scholarship program for the first year after projecting about 23,000 people would qualify.