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Invoquant la nécessité d’un resserrement budgétaire et l’utilisation rationnelle de l’argent public, le gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper a annoncé, le 25 septembre dernier, une série de compressions des dépenses de l’ordre de 1 milliard de dollars sur les deux […]

The British government wants campus staff to inform on Muslim & “Asian-looking” students. The British government’s Department for Education and Skills wants campus staff to spy on Muslim and “Asian-looking” students, the Guardian newspaper reported last month. The Guardian said […]

In today's customer & consumer-oriented society, where do students-as-customers end and students-as-learners begin? While the classroom teacher as reluctant hero has been well portrayed in movies such as Good-bye Mr. Chips, To Sir with Love and Stand and Deliver, the […]

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever felt like an utter stranger in a particular setting? Think back. It could have been your first day in grade school, or on first setting foot in a developing country, or […]

May 20, 2006 mark(ed) the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill. Quite unimportant to anyone other than myself, it also mark(ed) the 50th anniversary of my first encounter with On Liberty.Faced with a school chaplain who thought […]

Representatives of academic staff associations from coast-to-coast will gather on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Nov. 23 to meet with their members of Parliament as part of CAUT’s annual lobby. Teachers, librarians, researchers and other academic professionals will highlight the challenges […]

Bias and discrimination, and not innate ability, are the reasons why female academics are underrepresented in many fields of science and engineering, according to a report issued last month by the National Academies in the United States.     In their 364-page report, […]

A federal government sponsored online consultation on post-secondary education is receiving a tepid response from stakeholders.     Announced with little fanfare in August, Human Resources and Social Development Canada undertook the initiative to ask Canadians about the appropriate role and priorities of […]

Canada has the highest level of post-secondary education attainment in the developed world, but a new report warns it will soon be overtaken by other countries because of stagnant growth in the enrolment rate over the past decade. Education at […]

Marcus Harvey joined the staff of CAUT in August as a professional officer. His work for CAUT will include assisting the executive director with academic freedom cases, serving as a policy officer, providing advice to local associations and helping with […]

Carleton PhD student Paul Smith. Paul Smith, a PhD candidate at Carleton University in the National Wildlife Research Centre, is the recipient of the 2006–2007 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship.     The fellowship is given annually by CAUT to a student with […]

A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit Eric Larsen. Emeryville, California: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006; 291 pp; ISBN: 1-59376-098-1, paper $16 us. Finding oneself appalled by the moral and intellectual squalor of the younger generation […]