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Draft Discussion Document on Quebec Universities
May 23, 2013, 1 Comment

Among adults aged 55 to 64, Canada ranks fourth in the OECD, but by 2010, university attainment rates for the 25 to 34 a ...

Wednesday Night #1614
February 6, 2013, 1 Comment

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college educatio ...

Education: demographics and trends 2011-2012
December 26, 2012, 6 Comments

About Coursera We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer co ...

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) – bad news & good news
December 10, 2012, 2 Comments

2012 10 December Google makes MIT professor’s dream of “$100 laptop” a reality (Reuters) – Googl ...

Woodsworth gone from Concordia
September 5, 2012, 1 Comment

Concordia goes through senior administrators like Elizabeth Taylor went through husbands! Peggy Curran blog University C ...

Wednesday Night #1566
March 7, 2012, 6 Comments

See also wednesday-night.com “Moses arduously led the Jews for 40 years through the desert — just to bring them to t ...

Wednesday Night #1545
October 12, 2011, 2 Comments

The main topic remains the Economy – a tradition for Wednesday Night, but we are beginning to wish for a little va ...

Wednesday Night #1535
August 3, 2011, 3 Comments

It’s pretty scary out there. If you look at the historical data, every single time that growth has dipped below 2% ...

Wednesday Night #1507
January 19, 2011, 1 Comment

John Jonas, having had a very successful cataract operation, is back with Holly to offer his usual clear-eyed analysis o ...

Human development in the Arab world
January 18, 2011, Comments Off on Human development in the Arab world

Arab Human Development Reports (download) Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East (Truthdig) The Tunisian upris ...