Topic: Health and safety
Are Ontario universities and schools doing enough to care for students with children amid the COVID-19 crisis?
Many university students have child care responsibilities that they have had to balance with their academic work. With ongoing uncertainty around in-person […]
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Funding, Health and safety, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Students, Teaching and learning
Nursing students facing tough choices in order to graduate during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has put incredible strain on healthcare systems around the world. In Ontario, healthcare workers are in high demand. However, […]
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University survey shows how COVID-19 pandemic is hampering career progress for women and racialized faculty
A cross-Canada survey of university faculty found 68 per cent of females, compared with 32 per cent of males, reported family caregiver […]
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Health and safety, Online education, Students, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Tuition and student fees
How universities can support Indigenous online learners in the COVID-19 pandemic
Indigenous people with experience guiding culturally safe talking circles in an online environment can work with students to nurture safe virtual spaces. […]
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Outdoor education at universities can be a positive legacy of COVID-19
An orientation week organizer wearing a shirt promoting physical distancing of two metres sits in a new outdoor ampitheatre at Université de […]
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This type of sexual harassment on campus often goes overlooked
Teaching assistants often remain silent when sexual harassment comes from the students they teach. Hill Street Studios / Getty Images When the […]
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For university students, COVID-19 stress creates perfect conditions for mental health crises
A lone cyclist rides past the University of Toronto campus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on June 10, 2020. THE CANADIAN […]
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COVID-19 outbreaks at universities: Students need safe places to socialize, not partying bans
COVID-19 has not influenced a change in some students’ partying behaviors. Here, two young people talk at a bar in Marseille, France, […]
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How coronavirus highlights the everyday challenges of people with learning disabilities
Shutterstock/Suzanne Tucker Certain groups in society are often labelled as “vulnerable”. If you belong to one of these groups – as an […]
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Health and safety, Online education, Teaching and learning, Technology, Universities and the academic mission
Six ways universities are being put to the test by coronavirus
Distinguishing a unique sense of place within a common virtual space of online learning will require significant investment. (Shutterstock) After a rapid […]
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