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A report released last month looking at the link between tuition fees and access to post-secondary education is deeply flawed, says the Canadian Federation of Students. The latest Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation research study, Changes in Tuition Policy: Natural Policy […]

York University president Lorna Marsden responded to pressure in July by ending her suspension against a 22-year-old student, just one day after a Superior Court judge ordered a judicial review of the case. Daniel Freeman-Maloy, an undergraduate student and political […]

Representatives of CAUT joined 1,500 educators and researchers from nearly 160 countries around the world in Porto Alegre, Brazil in July for the 4th World Congress of Education International. The five-day congress, under the theme of education for global progress, […]

The charter challenge to the federal Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act brought by the Canadian Federation of Students was heard in Ontario Superior Court June 16. The federation argued the 10-year prohibition on student loan bankruptcy violates Section 15 of the […]

Marie-Josée Bourget Marie-Josée Bourget joined CAUT in July as Collective Bargaining Officer, replacing long-serving staff member Christiane Tardif. With a 20-year career as a contract academic staff member at four universities, Marie-Josée also brings trade union and collective bargaining skills […]

Linda Trimble & Jane Arscott. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003; 210 pp; ISBN: 1-55111-374-0; paper $24.95 CA. Still Counting is an account of why scholars and activists continue to count the number of women elected to Canada's legislatures, and demonstrates […]

L'Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) et l'UNESCO ont lancé une vaste initiative conjoin-te visant à élaborer des lignes directrices internationales sur l'as-surance qualité et l'homologation dans l'enseignement supérieur transnational. Cette initiative, amorcée au début de cet été, […]

Gary Teeple. Aurora, Ontario: Garamond Press, 2004; 274 pp; ISBN: 1-55193-041-2; hardcover $42.95 CA.; ISBN: 1-55193-039-0; paper $26.95 CA. Demands for 'human rights' and resistance to their violation are rarely out of the news. Yet, their definition is far from […]

J'ai eu le privilège de représenter l'ACPPU à la conférence internationale que l'Internationale de l'Éducation (IE) a tenue en juillet dernier à Porto Alegre (Brésil), et d'y être accompagnée par le directeur général de l'ACPPU, James Turk, et son directeur […]

Buying In or Selling Out? The Commercialization of the American Research University Donald G. Stein, ed. Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2004; 192 pp; ISBN: 0-8135-3374-0; hardcover $25.95 US. In the decade of the 1960s the world economy grew […]

CAUT has sharply criticized the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's consultation paper "From Granting Council to Knowledge Council." Released at the beginning of 2004, the SSHRC document would cause a fundamental transformation of the funding agency. In […]

Research libraries at Canada's universities are still a long way from the top, says the latest report from the Association of Research Libraries. According to the study, Holdings of University Research Libraries in U.S. and Canada, which includes 14 Canadian […]