Posted: Jun 03, 2021 6:00 AM MT | Last Updated: June 3
University of Calgary administration must submit its exceptional tuition increase requests to the province for approval by the end of the month.(David Bell/CBC)
The search for a summer job: The competition is fierce
Griffin Matheson, 19, has never had trouble landing a summer job. But that was before COVID-19 made so many employment opportunities disappear not just for him, but for tens of thousands of young people in Alberta.
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The window for students to find work is closing, but the province s reopening plan provides some hope
Posted: Jun 01, 2021 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: June 1
A young woman is seen here being interviewed for a position at Blowers & Grafton, a Calgary-based restaurant and bar. The company says it s going to hire 40 people over the next month based on the province s post-pandemic reopening plan.(Bryan Labby/CBC)
CALGARY The University of Calgary s Students Union says the school is proposing extreme tuition increases that would see fees hiked by 32 per cent for domestic engineering students and 51 per cent for international students. A tuition increase of 25 per cent for the Master of Business Administration and a 15.7 per cent hike for the medical doctor (MD) program is also on the table. What it means, basically broken down, is that MD students and domestic engineering students will pay more than $2,000 additional each year. International engineering students will be paying $11,000 more per year, said Nicole Schmidt with the students union. It s very, very concerning.
A student-led initiative that aims to expand the African Studies program in the Faculty of Arts was approved by the Quality Money Program committee of the University of Calgary’s Students’ Union (SU).
It will receive close to $400,000 in the course of the next three academic years and “will [be] used to redesign the African Studies program and implement a series of courses for UCalgary students,” according to the SU portal.
In a conversation with the Gauntlet Dr. Caesar Apentiik, coordinator for the African Studies program at the University of Calgary and students Prudence Iticka, Sinit Abraha and Ebenezer Belayneh, highlighted the importance of the initiative and the extent to which the funding will have for the UCalgary community in coming years.
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CALGARY Michelle Benz thought she was playing it smart when she went back to school after being laid off from the oil and gas sector six years ago.
She completed her bachelor of urban planning at the University of Calgary, but she’s frustrated that the job market in her chosen field has dried up due to COVID-19.
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“I felt like I should increase my personal skills to give myself a better shot in the labour market and now I’ve graduated to the worst job market in my lifetime,” said Benz, who’s turning 31.