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Experience garners job success Metro (Toronto) Newspaper, Tuesday, February 3, 2004 Satisfying your craving for success once you graduate isn’t as hard as you’d think. The steps are crucial, but the rewards plentiful when you work beyond the curriculum of your field of study. Dylan Le Roy, a career advisor at Simon Fraser University, says remaining flexible is important. “On Average, people change their career up to eight times in a lifetime,” says Le Roy. “Considering joining associations, clubs or volunteering. Also consider networking with individuals in your area of interest.” Career and job statistics can also be helpful. - excerpt, Metro (Toronto) Newspaper, February 3, 2004 Back to top Fingering is at your fingertips Higher Education, Spring 2004 In a climate of dramatically rising tuition fees, post-secondary education is in danger of becoming inaccessible to students of all socio-economic backgrounds. But there are other, more reassuring numbers of which many students are not aware: This year, more than 3000 organization across Canada are offering 15,000 individuals scholarships. “There’s a real lack of awareness and understanding of these opportunities,” says Chris Wilkins, president of ScholarshipsCanada.com. “Our challenge is to make students know about what’s available, beyond just what is offered by post-secondary schools,” Wilkins says. Indeed, the site explains that scholarships are offered by a broad range of sources, including businesses, unions, community organizations, private individuals and high schools. - excerpt, Higher Education, Spring 2004 Back to top OSCA News & Commentary OSCA.ca, June 16, 2004 OSCA news & Commentary includes details on: Election 2004 from SchoolFinder.com - excerpt, OSCA.ca, June 16, 2004 Back to top Durham College Launches Web-based Enrolment Management System The Heller Reports’ EdNET Week Headlines, Vol 6, No 7, June 18, 2004 Durham College has launched Edge’s Web-based ezRecruit™ software to effectively manage student recruitment. ezRecruit™ enables Durham College to direct enrolment management from the first contact with prospects through to registration. - excerpt, The Heller Reports’ EdNET Week Headlines, Vol 6, No 7, June 18, 2004 Back to top Canada’s largest private education School Fair & Camp Showcase Ourkids.net, Monday, June 21, 2004 The publisher of OUR KIDS – Go To Camp Magazine invites individuals to meet 100 of the leading private schools and summer camps. Guest Speaker, Barbara Coloroso will also be attending. She is an internationally recognized speaker and author in the areas of parenting, teaching, school discipline, non-violent conflict resolution and reconciliatory justice. - excerpt, Ourkids.net, June 21, 2004 Back to top Star Student find it’s raining money The Toronto Star, Wednesday, June 23, 2004 Scarborough teen Naheed Dosani has won so much scholarship money for university - $110, 000 at last count – he has to give some of it back. His 94.4 per cent average and volunteer work fighting racism has drawn merit money from universities, Ottawa and even a restaurant chain. The biggest prize, though – a scholarship for $60,000 over four years from TD Canada Trust – forbids winners from accepting more than $5000 from elsewhere. An Internet directory called ScholarshipsCanada.com listed 37,000 entrance scholarships this year, up from 28,000 just two years ago, at a current value of $58 million. (Students should also check www.studentawards.com). - excerpt, The Toronto Star, June 23,2004 Back to top Show Me the Money The Student Guide, Rob Taylor, Senior Editor, EDge Interactive, Fall 2004 ScholarshipsCanada.com’s Rob Taylor gives the goods on scholarships, awards and applications. Though some people may think scholarships are only for football players going to school in the U.S., there are more scholarships available to all post-secondary students now than ever before. ScholarshipsCanada.com, a database of scholarships, is home to well over 60,000 awards, awarded by over 400 organizations across Canada – and this is only one website. - excerpt, The Student Guide, Fall 2004 Back to top Money Grows on Duct Tape: A Primer on how scholarships can work The Underground, Vol. 24, Issue 00, September 2-15, 2004 ScholarshipsCanada.com works as a “white pages” for scholarships, allowing students to search for scholarships that are applicable to them, and to contact the organizations funding the scholarships. Rob Taylor, editor of scholarshipscanada.com and UTSC alumnus, encourages students to take their time and comb through the website, and to look for scholarships they are eligible for. Taylor advises students that “it is never too early to apply for scholarships, especially ones with requirements.” He also advises students to think carefully before submitting their applications for scholarships, as more organizations can tell how much thought and effort was put into the submission. - excerpt, The Underground, September 2-15 , 2004 Back to top School-day surfing Now, September 16-22, 2004 Check out these websites geared to making campus life a little more livable: - www.books4exchange.com Avoid long lineups at bookstores by getting in touch directly with students at your school who are getting rid of their books cheap. - excerpt, Now, September 16-22, 2004 Back to top Apply early and often Montreal Works, The Montreal Gazette, October 23, 2004 For the thousands of CEGEP students getting ready to graduate in the spring, it’s time to think about university applications. The same goes for university students looking to move on to graduate programs. Choosing a university program is a difficult decision – and paying for it can be tough. But there are many scholarships to make your university entrance more affordable? Best of all, they’re easy to find. Rob Taylor of Edge Interactive, the company that created scholarshipscanada.com and offers a student award of its own, offers some tips: “We look for people who have met our requirements and have presented themselves well. We’re also on the lookout for people who are different in some way. This year’s winner had many great and unique accomplishments and she laid her essay out in a very easy-to-read way that was different from everyone else who submitted to us.” - excerpt, Montreal Works, The Montreal Gazette, October 23, 2004 Back to top Finding schools, scholarships and careers online The Next Step Magazine, Rob Taylor, Senior Editor, EDge Interactive, December 2004 Finding a school, scholarship or career is all interconnected as far as I’m concerned. You can’t really apply for a scholarship unless you know what school you’re going to go to (or at least have a general idea). You can’t chose a school without having at least an idea of what you’re going to do after you graduate. And choosing a career, well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? Fortunately, we live in (wait for it) the INFORMATION AGE. - excerpt, The Next Step Magazine, December 23, 2004 Back to top