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Members of the Cape Breton University Faculty Association have a new three-year collectiveagreement, following two day of conciliation last month and a 91% strike vote in December. The agreement, which has been ratified by faculty and the university’s board, provides […]

The York University Foundation is arguing that a press release posted on the Internet should fall under broadcast libel law. The foundation makes the argument in a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by York professor David Noble. Under […]

CAUT executive director James Turk addresses students & their supporters during a rally in Ottawa Feb. 7. Thousands of students rallied at events in more than 30 university and college communities across Canada Feb. 7, marking a day of action […]

The New Democratic Party introduced a Post-Secondary Education Act in Parliament Feb. 5, which would see the federal government playing a more active role in reducing tuition fees and promoting quality in post-secondary education.      The education act, based on legislation […]

Talks aimed at creating sweeping new international trade rules resumed in Geneva in January, after a six-month hiatus.     The World Trade Organization’s Doha Round negotiations, named after the Qatari capital where talks were launched in 2001, were suspended in July when […]

CAUT has released the first update of its guide to the preparation of an effective portfolio of teaching accomplishments in almost 20 years.     “The CAUT Teaching Dossier explains what a teaching dossier is, how it can be used and how to […]

It takes all kinds of people with all kinds of expertise to make any organization work, and that is definitely true of our academic staff associations. But when it comes to kudos (a very important organizational exercise), all do not […]

Le Canada doit absolument formuler un ensemble de buts et d’objectifs explicites et bien définis pour l’enseignement postsecondaire (EP) à l’échelle nationale. Voilà l’une des principales constatations qui se dégagent du premier examen d’ensemble du secteur, rendu public en décembre […]

Le 5 février dernier, le Nouveau parti démocratique du Canada a déposé au Parlement une loi qui conférerait au gouvernement fédéral un rôle plus actif dans la réduction des droits de scolarité et l’amélioration de la qualité du système d’enseignement […]

Le Comité permanent des finances recommande au gouvernement conservateur d’augmenter les fonds alloués aux études supérieures en créant un nouveau paiement de transfert consacré exclusivement à l’enseignement postsecondaire et en resserrant l’obligation de rendre des comptes sur l’utilisation de ces […]

Dans son rapport rendu public le mois dernier, le comité indépendant chargé d’enquêter sur le différend qui opposait le professeur Kin-Yip Chun et l’Université de Toronto a relevé de graves violations des procédures académiques et des preuves de discrimination systémique […]

Britain’s recent move to replace its expensive Research Assessment Exercise with a cheaper “research metrics” formula for evaluating research productivity provides a disturbing and, perhaps, dangerous precedent. Whatever its presumed merits in the United Kingdom, any plan to evaluate scholarship […]