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A new ranking of the best universities in the world dropped and a total of 25 Canadian institutions managed to make the cut, six of which are in Quebec.
As Floria Kangootui crosses the stage at Convocation Hall this week, she’ll be thinking about how far she’s come. While the University of Toronto graduate always planned to continue her education when she fled Namibia for Canada 12 years ago, obstacles kept getting in the way – until she discovered the Transitional Year Programme (TYP).
In the ongoing competition for academic prestige, Montreal universities are grappling with an unprecedented challenge. A surprising upheaval in this year's Global 2000 list by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) sees local institutions and the Canadian higher education system at large grappling with a downward slide from their previous pinnacle of excellence.
As Christine Mo, a masters student studying public policy at the University of Toronto, heads back to class for the start of a new school year, memories of the previous