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There is plenty of room to criticize the Ontario government's plan to allow private universities in the province. Most of the criticisms being made, however, strike me as being wide of the mark. Both supporters and opponents of private universities […]

Queen's faculty will get a salary increase, but not as much as they hoped for, an arbitrator has ruled. The 1999-2002 collective agreement at Queen's University provides for scale increases for 2000 and 2001 to be negotiated each year, with […]

"We are harvesting our children as a cash crop." This stark keynote message from Alex Molnar, head of the U.S.-based Centre for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education, captured the sentiments of the three hundred educators, support staff and students […]

Andrew Jackson, David Robinson with Bob Baldwin & Cindy Wiggins. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2000; 202 pp; paper $19.95. Falling Behind: The State of Working Canada 2000 is the first comprehensive account of how the poor economic performance […]

Faculty members from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and other states converged early in May on Bennington, Vermont, to protest faculty firings and curbs on academic freedom at Bennington College. The American Association of University Professors sponsored the event. […]

Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development, 2000; 385 pp; paper $42 US. Education at a Glance provides an up-to-date array of indicators representing the current state of education internationally. They provide information on the human and financial resources invested […]

The giant American book retailer Barnes & Noble Inc. has joined with the online education company notHarvard.com to establish an Internet-based university offering free tuition in what critics say is a sales and marketing gimmick. The two companies said the […]

The NDP government of Manitoba tabled its first budget last month, promising increased funding for post-secondary education, a 10 per cent cut in tuition fees, and the reinstatement of a provincial student bursary program cut by the former Tory government. […]

Sessional lecturers at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières are locked out of Summer Session. This illegal lock-out targets the instructors in the École internationale de français, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, who are heavily represented on […]

A recent decision by the Ontario government to change the distribution of the Ontario Graduate Scholarships has been thrown out. The provincial government was contemplating allotting the scholarships to institutions on a fixed basis to be granted at source, rather […]

n mid-May, the status of women committee of the University of Toronto Faculty Association co-sponsored a culture of peace symposium with CAUT to celebrate the International Year for the Culture of Peace. Events held at the OISE/UT site over a […]

Media baron Rupert Murdoch and his giant News Corporation company have reached a deal with the 18-member university network Universitas 21 (which includes McGill University, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia) to offer online programs and […]