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It’s a done deal. A strike by librarians and archivists at the University of Western Ontario ended Sept. 23 with an 84 per cent vote in favour of a new four-year agreement. The library personnel represented by the UWO Faculty […]

Un boursier postdoctoral demande à la Cour fédérale du Canada de revoir la procédure d’appel du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH). Johannes Wheeldon, chercheur postdoctoral à la Washington State University, sollicite le contrôle judi­ci­aire des concours de bourses […]

(Photo: PICSFIVE/shutterstock.com) Post-secondary education has emerged as an important issue in provincial elections across the country this fall. In Manitoba, the incumbent New Democratic Party kicked off its campaign with a promise to limit tuition fee increases to no more […]

Les coupes claires dans le financement et le niveau élevé des droits de scolarité faussent les règles d’admission des universités américaines. Les responsables des admissions reconnaissent l’émergence d’un « choc des valeurs » dans les campus américains face à la […]

Manitoba’s only French-language post-secondary institution, the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, is no more. The school is now officially the Université de Saint-Boniface, or USB. Billed as the first of its kind in Western Canada in the early 1800s as a […]

Les modifications à la loi canadienne sur le droit d’auteur déposées le mois dernier au Parlement auront à la fois des effets avantageux et néfastes sur le travail des professionnels de l’éducation. « Nous nous réjouissons que la plus récente […]

Amendments to Canadian copyright law tabled last month in Parliament will both benefit and hinder the work of educators. “We’re pleased the government’s latest incarnation of copyright reform, Bill C-11, reflects the priorities of Canada’s academic and research community to […]

A postdoctoral research fellow is asking the Federal Court of Canada to review the appeals policy of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Johannes Wheeldon, a post doc at Washington State University, is seeking judicial review of SSHRC’s postdoctoral […]

CAUT president Wayne Peters (right) shakes hands with Christian Addai-Poku, president of Ghana’s National Association of Graduate Teachers, after signing a mutual cooperation agreement. The 1,400 delegates attending the 6th World Congress of Education International in July unanimously passed a […]

Andrew Park’s letter (Bulletin, June 2011) is troubling. He laments that neither he nor his colleagues at the University of Winnipeg know what the rules are regarding NSERC’s view of what constitutes highly-qualified personnel (HQP). He is not alone.       […]

We all lose when scholars forfeit copyright, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto. (Alonso Nichols / Tufts University) "Yes, professor. I agree.” That’s all it takes. Then the iniquity sets in — a modest evil, by the world’s standards, but an iniquity nonetheless, […]

Post-secondary education in Canada is in the midst of a crisis — a fundamental transformation that is having disastrous effects on our students, our institutions, our communities and our country. In recent years we have witnessed disturbing economic, social and […]