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Canadian Association of University Teachers
| Journalists from the Manitoban and the Globe and Mail win CAUT awards |
| (Tuesday, May 17, 2011)
- Journalists from the Manitoban and the Globe and Mail have won this year’s CAUT Excellence in Post-secondary Education Journalism awards. Rod Mickleburgh and Mark MacKinnon won for their investigative piece called “Chinese pay dearly for Canadian 'education'; Some recruiting agencies promise far more than they can deliver to foreign scholars eager for university placement,” published in the Globe and Mail on October 16, 2010. Talking to students and former teachers in Canada and China, they expose the very dark side of corporations like Navitas and Study Group International, which are promoting their for-profit college model to Canadian universities as a way of attracting more international students, and the higher tuition fees they pay. In particular they investigated the Aoji Education Group, used to recruit Chinese students for two for-profit colleges set up by Navitas in Canada – the Fraser International College, affiliated with Fraser University and the International College of Manitoba, affiliated with the University of Manitoba. The student media award went to University of Manitoba student Ashley Gaboury, a copy editor for the Manitoban and former Canadian University Press bureau chief, who wrote a series of articles about the funding crisis at the First Nations University of Canada. This year’s submissions were judged by James Compton, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies; Lisa Lynch, assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at Concordia University; and James Winter, professor of journalism in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Windsor. |
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