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When women of colour face a higher mortality rate, what is Ryerson teaching its students?

November 29, 2018

Professionals need to be educated on equitable treatment, the midwifery and nursing programs at Ryerson look at how students can be trained in treating health issues faced by women of colour

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Reconciliation through academia: Has Ryerson made headway?

November 22, 2018

Nearly one year after the release of a community consultation report, Indigenous faculty and students reflect on Ryerson’s progress with Indigenous reconciliation, and its shortcomings

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A practical how-to-guide for paying back your OSAP

November 6, 2018

Repaying your OSAP can seem an impossible and intimidating feat. Here's a handy-dandy guide to make it easier for you

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Cybersecurity sectors lack in human talent, study says

November 1, 2018

The study by Deloitte and Toronto Financial International found that jobs in the cybersecurity sector are not being filled as companies face recruitment challenges with graduates who have a lack of job-ready skills

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Ryerson launches two-week cybersecurity competition

September 28, 2018

The challenges will focus on five main areas: Web exploitation and web security, binary exploitation, reverse engineering, forensics and cryptography

Miseducation: How the old sex-ed curriculum left university students in the dark

September 12, 2018

This summer, the Ontario Progressive Conservatives repealed the updated sex education curriculum. University students reflect on how the curriculum affected them growing up

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It’s high time we learned more about weed

Weed legalization is only a few months away, and some students think Ryerson should be educating on it. However, the university's cannabis policies are still up in the air

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Students learn better in person, so who are online courses for?

February 26, 2018

Research shows students learn better in-person than online, especially students who struggle in class

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Ryerson lab uses technology to bring hands-on-learning to classrooms

September 19, 2017

The Responsive Ecologies Lab studies how technologies can be useful in our lives and promote our ability to learn

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Let’s bitch about tuition

October 25, 2016

We’ve all heard the statistics. University is fucking expensive, and it gets worse every year

The Abandoned Percentile: the ins and outs of dropping out

Why do some students get pushed out of university?

Battle the buzzwords

February 23, 2016

Today I’d like you to think about buzzwords. Because here’s the thing — they don’t mean anything, really.