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Mass protests, demonstrations & strikes in wake of new plans to reform the country's university system. Students from across Europe are being called to demonstrate against Spain's infamous new law to reform the university system, the Ley Orgánica de Universidades […]

CAUT is condemning the decision of the B.C. government to fully deregulate university and college tuition fees in the province. CAUT president Tom Booth says the provincial government's announcement last month lifting a six-year freeze on tuition fees is "shortsighted […]

Regional universities and colleges in Canada are losing ground to other institutions because of the way federal research money is being divided across the country, a senior administrator at Memorial University of Newfoundland is charging. Appearing before a public hearing […]

The newly nominated president of the University of New Brunswick says he is frustrated by the way universities in the Atlantic region are being ignored by Ottawa and the richer provinces. Speaking in Fredericton last month at the fourth in […]

In late January the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that secondary picketing is legal. Having concluded "there is no principled ground on which to ban secondary picketing" striking workers now have the right to set up picket lines at locations […]

Arbitrator finds evidence of discrimination & orders university to pay full compensation. A retired University of Waterloo professor has won a significant victory in an arbitration ruling that the university discriminated against him on the basis of disability. Professor Sydney […]

By now, you will have been inundated with letters decrying the introduction of Bill 28. I will not, therefore, waste the valuable time of either of us by saying the same old things in a new way. Instead, I wish […]

Students at Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, are the first to learn the impact of tuition deregulation. The Malaspina administration will recommend to its board that tuition next year increase 98 per cent for first- and second-year students and […]

L'ACPPU a nommé Janet Creery au nouveau poste d'adjointe de direction — communications et information. Janet possède un baccalauréat en beaux-arts de l'Université Concordia et a terminé un programme en multimédias interactifs au Collège Algonquin. Avant d'intégrer le personnel de […]

Le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique a dévoilé un train de mesures de compressions draconiennes des dépenses et de licenciements massifs de fonctionnaires dans le but de réaliser sa promesse électorale qui est de réduire les impôts tout en équilibrant le […]

Dans la chronique de décembre, il était question des dommages que le sous-financement a causés à nos universités depuis les dix dernières années et de la réaffectation des fonds, rétablis en partie à leur niveau antérieur, à d'autres fonctions de […]

Un ancien ministre de l'Éducation de la Colombie-Britannique et ex-président du Conseil des ministres de l'Éducation (Canada) affirme que les universités et collèges du pays souffrent à cause d'un manque de leadership et de volonté des élus. Paul Ramsay a […]