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Quarterly Summary: Guest Bloggers are Great!
This summer featured our second summer series. Last year’s “So you want to be a…” was followed up this year by “Notches in the STIC” which navigated through the key points of the Science and Technology Innovation Council’s recent report … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge, Canada, CAPS, Council of Canadian Academies, CSaP, CSPC, education, Employment, fellowship, Government, Graduate Student, Marianne Stanford, Nassif Ghoussoub, non-academic jobs, Open Laboratory, PDF, PhD, Piece of Mind, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Recruitment of Policy Leaders, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Technology and Innovation Council, SSHRC, Stem Cell Network, Summary, Training, University
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Quick Hit: Recruitment of Policy Leaders Program to run Oct 3-17, 2011
The Government of Canada has released details of its 2011 Recruitment of Policy Leaders program. We’ve written before about becoming a public servant which contains information about this program and others in the Canadian Public Service. If you are aware of … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, education, Employment, federal government jobs, Government, Government of Canada, life choices, money, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Secondary Recruitment, postacademic jobs, Recruitment of Policy Leaders, Science, Training, transferrable skills, University
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So you want to be a public servant when you grow up…
I have written before about how scientific information gets (poorly) communicated to the Government in entries about the routes of information acquisition and about getting scientists to understand how policy works. In my mind, one of the best ways of … Continue reading
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