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First Nations people are bearing the brunt of rising tuition fees and stagnant funding for post-secondary education, the Assembly of First Nations is warning. While tuition fees once again rose in 2001, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada did not increase […]

Jim Stanford's commentary "We Don't Need No Education" (Bulletin, September 2001) provides a breath of fresh air to all the cant about the purpose of higher education being for "higher productivity" and "global market competitiveness." But the irony of the […]

The president of the University of Toronto says that scholarships given to bright but wealthy students should be spent instead on deserving students who are truly in financial need. Robert Birgeneau is calling on other university presidents to support a […]

In recent years there have been an increased number of occurrences wherein academic freedom has been the subject of report and discussion. Veracity of positions of fact taken by academics has been ignored and dismissed, discounted and shunned or even […]

A Quebec tribunal is being asked to overturn a 1998 decision that dismissed a claim made by the McGill Students Society and student Paul Ruel that higher university fees for out-of-province students is discriminatory. Since 1997, Quebec undergraduate students pay […]

Ghosts in the Classroom: Stories of College Adjunct Faculty and the Price We All Pay Michael Dubson, ed. Boston: Camel's Back Books, 2001; 155 pp; paper $12.95 US, $18.95 CA. Ghosts in the Classroom is a collection of readings which […]

Sean Kane. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2001; 323 pp; paper $24.95 CA. "I have a message for the congeries of scabby detrimentals down there. Apocalypse Now! The new corporate order has arrived!" So bellows the incoming Chairman of the Board […]

Jeanne M. Follman. Chicago: Duomo Press, 2001; 176 pp; paper $14.95 US, $22.95 CA. The dot-coms have boomed and busted and the cyber-sizzle surrounding the advent of the Internet has come and gone. But the Internet and the Web are […]

Universitas 21, an international consortium of universities including McGill and British Columbia, is proceeding with controversial plans to develop an online university with Thomson Learning, a division of the Thomson Corporation. Thomson and the consortium have each pledged US $25 […]

A new three-year collective agreement between the University of British Columbia and its faculty members was ratified over the summer. UBC faculty association president Norma Wieland hailed the new contract as an important one for members. "We are very pleased […]

The age at which people retire from their jobs has been dropping since the mid 1970s and early retirement is now more common than a decade ago, concludes a new Statistics Canada report. The study, Early Retirement Trends, examines what […]

University of Victoria biology student Jean Elisabeth Marcus is this year's winner of CAUT's J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship. Marcus obtained her MSc degree at the University of Victoria and is currently enrolled in its PhD program. She is studying […]