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Mount Saint Vincent University’s co-operative education program is celebrating 40 years of shifting students’ learning from the classroom to the workplace, and helping to break the “you need experience to get a job, but you need a job to gain experience” cycle. After completing paid work terms in industries related to their fields of study, […]

Each summer, Clean Foundation hires interns for a nine-to-15-week period to work various positions across multiple organizations throughout Nova Scotia. Clean provides these interns with the knowledge and tools to inspire and encourage actions that lead to positive environmental change, through their Clean Leadership Program. Daniel Robinson, a student of Environmental Sustainability at Acadia University, […]

Rhonda Kaassamani is in the first wave of students taking the new Intercultural Studies program at Saint Mary’s University. This new major dovetails perfectly with other areas of study, including Rhonda’s prior experience as an American Sign Language/English interpreter. “I want to be that person who can help mesh all the worlds together,” says the […]

When Tracy Roach was completing high school, she didn’t think she would ever pursue a career in health care. Even though she always knew she wanted to help people, nursing was never on the table. “After a few years of being home, my family had been affected by many cases of cancer. I spent so […]

Entering the New Year with holiday credit card debt and the next round of student-loan payments, we couldn’t have expected the good news about the current employment increase in Canada. While experts were only expecting the economy to grow by 5,000 jobs in January, the latest numbers from Statistics Canada say it actually gained 66,800 […]

When it came to choosing schools, Virg Iredale picked Dalhousie twice. The first time, she was thinking of enrolling in Dal’s acting program. She then switched programs, schools and provinces on an entirely different venture. But after receiving a message from one of her favourite teachers, Virg went back to Dalhousie because she knew that […]

A Baptist Minister walks into a bar and then – think you know what happens? Think again. It was 25 years ago that God started tugging on Halifax Distilling Co. owner Arla Johnson’s heart strings. She wasn’t sure where she was being pulled, but God kept tugging. She finally said “yes” and enrolled in the […]

Cynthia Sawatzky didn’t go searching for her program. Instead, geology found her. She registered at Saint Mary’s University, but had signed up late for first semester. Some courses she wanted to take were full, so she added an intro geology course to fill a science slot in her schedule. “I had no previous introduction to […]

Jenna LeBlanc knew from a young age that she wanted to grow up to become a teacher. But becoming a teacher in Nova Scotia seemed impossible – there were no job openings and her own high school teachers were discouraging of the profession. Jenna then spent a year working in an after-school program and confirmed […]

Shawn Craik had very little teaching experience before finding Université Sainte-Anne. He taught a few undergraduate lectures as a graduate student at McGill, and as a PhD student, he had the opportunity to teach some undergraduate courses and labs. He decided then and there that he wanted to teach at a small undergraduate university, where […]

The further we dive into the age of information and learning, the harder it is for our qualifications to stand out on their own. Candidates can look perfect on paper, having completed any number of degrees, and turn out to be a complete dud in person. That’s why the personal touch still matters. A great […]