Charlotte Yates
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Exchange students take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Stratford Upon-Avon
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On Feb. 28, a trip from the University of Birmingham to Stratford Upon-Avon for the English literature department left with two full buses of students. This trip was planned by two coordinators from the student exchange advisory and involved a jam-packed schedule in Stratford Upon-Avon where students were able to meet cast members of Shakespeare’s…
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Exchange student expectation versus reality: is it worth it to decide to study abroad?
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To commit to an exchange program abroad is not always as easy. Things do not always go the way you expect. I talked to some exchange students at the University of Birmingham to find out what they hope to get out of their exchange experience. “Getting to experience studying in a different country while also…
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Investigating the gender wage gap at Laurier
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The 1996 Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act saw to the creation of the Ontario Sunshine list. The Sunshine list keeps a catalogue of all employers within the public sector and documents each employees name, position and total earnings for a given year. The act was designed to make public institutions more transparent and accountable, but…
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Long distance shouldn’t be the end to a relationship
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Since late December, I’ve seen my boyfriend in person a total of eight days. Between getting sick — again — being in and out of the doctor’s and then flying off to exchange in England for a semester, physically getting to one another is next to impossible. Our relationship was one of the biggest reservations…
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