Students from all over the world flock to Canada to pursue their studies. While every student has a different experience, there are some things that are important for student survival... and sanity. There has to be a balance between their academic and social lives, while managing to adjust to the winter season, which can last for a longer time than most students are accustomed to. This guide offers tips on how to become involved in your campus activities, create personal job opportunities, network, and how to gain some amount of financial independence. Additionally, you will find statistics and information from international students who have experienced university in Canada and wish to share their personal experiences and tips for success. Prospective and new students will find this guide very helpful, easy to read and very brief; because who has time to be reading a 100-page book on saving time and money?

A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Canadian universities, listing over 50 different universities across Canada, The Student's Guide to Canadian Universities uses a witty and irreverent approach to discuss every facet of university life in detail.

Canada's universities have lost their autonomy. Under the guise of accountability, reformers from government and large corporations have undermined the original purposes of these institutions, insisting that they operate according to a business model. The chief tool used to effect this change is the performance indicator, a method of evaluation and ranking well suited to measuring sales per square foot, for example, but useless in assessing qualities such as critical thinking, creativity and wisdom. Evaluating use of performance indicators in Canada, the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, the authors challenge readers to look beyond this narrow, business-based measure of value, and to consider more creative and effective methods of evaluation. Counting Out the Scholars is a penetrating analysis of current methods of performance evaluation in the university, one that offers alternatives to the prevailing orthodoxy.