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EDUCATION
Private Provisions a Necessity for
Future of World's Higher Education
Like it or not, demand for higher studies around the world is growing too rapidly for public institutions to sustain. This fact was made abundantly clear at the second World Conference on Higher Education in Paris. Two reports submitted to the conference reveal that private institutions now manage 30 per cent of the world's...
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ACCREDITATION
U of T Launches Programme to
Help Foreign-trained Lawyers
The University of Toronto (U of T) recently announced its plans to launch a bridging programme for internationally trained lawyers seeking accreditation to practice law in Ontario. This program, the first of its kind in Canada, joins other bridging programmes at the U of T for professionals such as pharmacists, engineers and nurses.
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COLLABORATION
University of Alberta and IIT Bombay
Form Health and Energy Partnership
Professor Pradipta Banerji, former dean of International Relations at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, travelled to Edmonton to work out the details of a major partnership with the University of Alberta (U of A). The two schools would be collaborating on research into health and energy issues.
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Kerala Software Park to
Undergo Expansion
The second phase of the software Infopark in Kochi will be developed under a public-private partnership (PPP) model over 160 acres. The property is to be acquired by the end of this year said Infopark chief executive Siddhartha Bhattacharya. It is still undecided as to who would develop the park, whether it would be Infopark...
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IMMIGRATION
Canada Not At Risk of an
Anti-immigration Backlash
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) claims that Canada is among the western democracies least likely to develop an anti-immigrant backlash. This finding was reported after a presentation urging western democracies to keep their ports of entry open to newcomers despite the economic crisis.
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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Cancer Care Research Programme
Gaining Global Perspective
"It is really important for our graduate students to be gaining global health competence in pressing cancer care issues," explains Dr. Carmen Loiselle, the leader of a six-year old psychosocial oncology research training (PORT) programme in Canada. PORT trains promising graduate students to develop and test innovative,...
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N-PLANTS
Canada's Bruce Power Shelves Plan for
2 New Ontario N-Plants
Canada's Bruce Power has announced its decision to withdraw its applications to construct two new nuclear power plants in Ontario. It no longer plans to build a third plant at the existing Bruce site and has scrapped plans for a plant at Nanticoke. The company said that it will now concentrate on the refurbishment of its existing...
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PARTNERSHIP
U of S signs MoU with Rural University
in Madhya Pradesh, India
On July 23, 2009, Dr. Brett Fairbairn, Provost and Vice-President at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S), signed a memorandum of understanding with Dr. Gyanendra Singh, Vice Chancellor of a unique university in rural India that focuses its research and teaching mandate entirely on rural development.
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TOURISM
Is Space tourism going to be India's
next Adventurous Venture?
Can the space tourism industry become commercially viable in India? A question that comes to mind when India has already taken major strides in this area. A new bi-national team of researchers ask this important question as they conduct the first study on the subject of space tourism ever undertaken in or about India.
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MILESTONE
A Event of its Kind:
MSSO Silver Jubilee
Maharashtra Seva Samiti Organization (MSSO) celebrated 25 years of development work 'bridging miles and minds' between Indo-Canadians and the less fortunate in India. In its 25-year history, MSSO has contributed more than four million dollars to projects in India through matching funds from both the federal and provincial...
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• Delayed monsoon spreads rapidly, MET deptt. hopes it will hold-up.
• Late monsoon and heat wave in June hits sowing for rice, oilseeds and
pulses - expect pressure on prices.
• Growth heading upwards, monsoon and the US economy could still be spoilers.
 
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