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Le personnel académique et les syndicats se joignent aux étudiants pour défendre le droit à l’éducation Une foule massive d'étudiants a participé à la journée d'action nationale sur la Colline du Parlement à Ottawa le 1er février. (Vincent St. Martin/Graduate […]

All Out! Day of Action draws large crowd of students to Parliament Hill in Ottawa Feb. 1. (Vincent St. Martin/Graduate Students Association/Carleton) Chants resounded loudly from students and their allies at Education is a Right rallies organized by the Canadian […]

La version intégrale anglaise du rapport du CCPA peut être consultée ou téléchargée à l'adresse www.policyalternatives.ca/ paidinfull. La hausse des droits de scolarité pour financer l’éducation supérieure est une solution inopportune et inutile. Les diplômés universitaires assument les coûts de […]

Another senior staff person has left Statistics Canada, alleging the agency no longer fosters the free exchange of ideas. Philip Cross, Statscan’s chief economic analyst, resigned in January to work at the CD Howe Institute. Cross reported he had concerns […]

Westminster Hall — The British government has shelved highly contentious plans to reform the university sector. (Monika Pa/SHUTTERSTOCK.com) The UK government has withdrawn controversial new legis­lation due this spring that would have made it easier for private universities and colleges, […]

The federal government raised red flags with the announcement of a new selection process for the up-coming Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) competition. The 2012 selection board, led by an American university president and a former chief of staff to […]

University graduates pay the costs of their education “and more,” according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The report entitled Paid in Full: Who Pays for University Education in B.C. found that graduates overpay as […]

Legislation introduced by the Saskatchewan Party government would allow private universities. (Johanna Goodyear / SHUTTERSTOCK.com) Saskatchewan is the latest province to extend degree-granting status to public colleges as well as allow the recognition of private universities.       Similar to legislation […]

[Aaron Amat/SHUTTERSTOCK.com] By Rick Gooding, Sandra Hoenle, Peter Little, Catherine Christie, George Davison, Kelly MacFarlane, Ronda Ward & Leslie Jermyn Our post-secondary education system is moving to ever greater reli­ance on student opinion surveys (mislabelled as teaching or course evaluations) to […]

As CAUT president I have the pleasure of attending various conferences, workshops and fora designed to explore issues important to post-secondary education and the academics who give it life. This past November, I joined about 100 aboriginal post-secondary edu­cators and […]

Nserc’s Discovery Grant Program has constituted the back-bone of academic science research in Canada for decades. Traditionally, research-active faculty members were expected to hold a Discovery Grant. Discovery Grants provide the main component of graduate student support, supplemented by teaching […]

The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters Benjamin Ginsberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011; 264 pp; ISBN: 978-0-19978-244-4, cloth $29.95 USD. Reviewed by Hans Skott-Myhre Benjamin Ginsberg’s book is a well-articulated scholarly polemic against the […]