Another university president without a Ph.D.
Acadia today announced that it has named Ray Ivany as its new president. Ivany has a long record as an academic administrator: he served as a vice-president at what was then the University College of...
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Companies get colleges to do their training
Camosun College AV Services Amy Gordon was in the middle of completing her second university degree when she decided to go to college instead. Gordon already had a degree in biology from the University...
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From the Maclean’s Guide to Canadian Universities. HERITAGE CARPENTER Greg House of Lunenburg County, N.S., grew up in a 200-year-old Cape Cod style home, which his dad purchased in 1972. Even after...
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From the 2013 Maclean’s University Rankings Kristy Normore, 23, grew up in L’Anse-au-Loup, Nfld., and was one of 16 in her high school’s graduating class. (L’Anse-au-Loup has a population of 600.) She...
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Harbour Hopper gets a brake from NSCC
The Halifax Harbour Hoppers are Vietnam-era troop carriers. (Photograph by Kayla Chobotiuk) Jeff Farwell had an expensive problem. His company runs Halifax’s amphibious vehicles, the Harbour Hoppers....
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Meet the intern who sailed from Gibraltar to Canada
Liam Burke in the marine engineering simulation room at Nova Scotia Community College campus in Port Hawkesbury, N.S. (Photograph by Kayla Chobotiuk) Not all internships involve filing papers and...
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If you have a sense of adventure and enjoy food, you can be a ship’s cook
Make waves: Challenges include seasickness and long stretches away from home A cook can make good money by heading out on the high seas. Ocean-based businesses need someone to cook, and starting...
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NSCC houses a collection of maps all the way from the year 1545
Treasure trove: The collection documents Canadian history, as the country changed hands from France to Britain Students at an Annapolis Valley campus of the Nova Scotia Community College have a leg up...
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NSCC is only school in Canada using lidar to map seabed near shore
Map out: Research associate Kate Collins gathers GPS data on the ground to validate flight elevations If you know the shape and size of seabeds, that information can be used in everything from the...
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Making waves in modern shipbuilding
Dylan Francis, a member of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, knew he wanted a career in the metal trades. But getting there proved difficult. In 2015, he earned a two-year college welding...
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How Nova Scotia Community College students solved a data gap while building...
Stephanie Sheridan knew what she wanted when she enrolled last fall for a two-year diploma in data analytics at Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC): a career boost. In 2018, with a degree in computing...
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