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For many years by far the largest amount of federal money for post-secondary education has come through federal transfers to the provinces. This system was created after World War II by the Liberals and culminated in the creation of Established […]

Le Comité de direction a pris position, cet été, au sujet du code de déontologie sur la recherche utilisant les sujets humains proposé par les trois conseils de recherches, et s'y est vivement opposé. Les trois conseils disposent déjà de […]

La rentrée dans les universités, les collèges et les écoles du pays s'accompagne chaque année d'un déluge d'articles d'opinion et d'enseignements pontifiants sur tout ce qui touche à l'éducation. Durant la dernière semaine d'août, le Globe and Mail a ressorti […]

Provincial Power Grab This spring the Manitoba government introduced Bill 32 which is designed to increase dramatically the power of the politicians over the internal functioning of Manitoba's universities. The government is doing this by abolishing the University Grants Commission […]

Jeu de pouvoir au Manitoba Le gouvernement du Manitoba a déposé au printemps le projet de loi 32 qui vise à accroître sensiblement le pouvoir des politiciens sur le fonctionnement interne des universités du Manitoba. En vertu du projet de […]

This summer the CAUT Executive took vigorous exception to the draft code on research about human subjects proposed by the three federal research councils. All three councils have codes about research on human subjects. Now they are proposing a new […]

Forty delegates from across Canada gathered recently at Val David, Quebec, to consider the Challenges of Concessionary Bargaining, this year's topic at the annual Collective Bargaining Conference. The conference, organized by the Collective Bargaining and Economic Benefits Committee of CAUT, […]

Department of Anthropology / Center for Instructional Technology Development, University of Toronto at Scarborough Traditionally, the learned journal has served as the primary medium for scholarly communication, legitimizing and assessing scholarly discourses and intellectual labour, and facilitating the academic review […]

With the opening of universities, colleges, and schools across the country comes the annual deluge of editorial opinion and punditry on all things educational. In the last week of August, The Globe and Mail came out once again for higher […]

The university community has for many years been unable to speak with one voice to the federal government on the importance of federal funding for university research. A sign of the serious nature of the crisis in university research is […]

The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) met in Edmonton this past May for the second National Consultation on Education "Accountability in Education." The university and college sector was very much on the ministers' minds. From one point of […]

Accountability is the buzzword of the 1990s and, although a perfectly sensible concept, it has lost some of its credibility through overuse and abuse. In university and college circles governments have commonly adopted it as an excuse for irresponsible budget […]