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A federal advisory panel established to determine whether Canada is experiencing a shortage of skills is recommending all levels of the educational system, from elementary to post-secondary, be drastically reshaped to suit the needs of business. In its final report, […]

After a lengthy probe, staff at the Ontario Human Rights Commission investigating allegations of racial discrimination at the University of Toronto have recommended a hearing by a board of inquiry. In 1992, world-renowned Chinese-Canadian geophysicist Kin-Yip Chun filed a human […]

I must respond to Dr. Sam Black's commentary (Bulletin, January) on the sexual harassment decision in British Columbia. Dr. Black suggests the decision will have a negative effect on the ability of professors to provide a rich learning environment for […]

At the invitation of the Brandon University Faculty Association, CAUT's Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee sent a two-person fact-finding team to the university in late January to investigate a charge of conflict of interest and other breaches of due process. […]

Privatization Pipe Dream at McGill University administrators, like most of us, harbor a wish for world-shaking success in the practice of their calling. But for those at cash-strapped universities, finding the magic remedy that will dispel the financial clouds is […]

Three Trent University faculty members have hired one of Canada's most experienced constitutional lawyers to represent them in challenging a board of governor's resolution they claim subverts the power of Trent's academic senate. Professors Ian McLachlan, Peter Kulchyski and Andrew […]

The federal government's strategy to improve accessibility to post-secondary education has been less than beneficial to students. In recent years the Liberal's have: cut $3 billion from transfer payments to the provinces; established a flashy scholarship fund that leaves recipients […]

No Ivory Tower: The University Under Siege H.T. Wilson, Richmond: Voyageur Press, 1999; 192 pp; cloth $18.95 CA. Readers of the Bulletin or visitors to the CAUT web site already have a sound grounding on the subject of the neo-liberal […]

E.Con: How the Internet Undermines Democracy Donald Gutstein, Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., 1999; 320 pp; cloth $24.95 CA. This book provides welcome relief from the unbridled enthusiasm that accompanies much of what passes for discussion of the Internet. If […]

The debate over the most effective minority faculty recruitment methods is one that continues to plague the academic community and equity-seeking groups. Improvement in the numbers of minority faculty hired has been slow, and in a recent study by University […]

Ten years after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child guaranteed education for all children, the promise is still a distant dream. More than 125 million children, most of them young girls, never see the inside of a […]

Alternative Federal Budget A call by a broad coalition of labour and community groups for Ottawa to reinvest the growing surplus in the social programs and public services that bore the brunt of deficit reduction was echoed in an "alternative […]