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La Fédération des associations de professeures et professeurs d’université du Nouveau-Brunswick (FAPPUNB) a accueilli froidement le budget provincial présenté par le gouvernement libéral le 2 février dernier. La fédération dénonce le fait que, malgré les promesses qui avait été faites, […]

New innovations are changing the way diseases are treated, says Molly Shoichet [Roberta Baker / Engineering Strategic Communications / University of Toronto] Healing people with polymers has been the life work of University of Toronto biomedical engineering professor Molly Shoichet, […]

[iStock.com / WaveBreakMedia] Les évaluations des enseignants par les étudiants ne devraient jamais être considérées ni décrites comme des mesures de la qualité de l’enseignement. Les sondages d’opinion des étudiants et leur utilisation sont depuis des années fortement contestés dans […]

No more than three-quarters of the students on courses at Scottish universities should be of the same gender, the country’s funding council has ruled. A report by the Scottish Funding Council says that subjects such as engineering continue to be […]

The Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations gave a cool reception to the provincial budget tabled by the Liberal government on Feb. 2. The federation says the government broke its promise to spare the education sector from its latest round […]

[iStock.com / WaveBreakMedia] Student opinion surveys of instructors should never be considered or described as measures of teaching quality. Student opinion surveys and how they are used have been hotly contested in academia for years. But new research points to […]

In the spring of 2015, the federal Conservative government introduced legislation to expand both the maximum payable weeks of compassionate care benefits under EI and the maximum number of weeks of compassionate care leave without pay available under the Canada […]

The fundraising campaign launched by the CAUT Refugee Foundation last fall to help victims of the civil war in Syria was a major success. Thanks to the generous donations of CAUT members, the foundation raised $38,140. The money was sent […]

A recent study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario paints a favourable picture of job prospects for PhD grads. The study found that one in three graduates with doctoral degrees from Ontario universities have found tenured or tenure-track […]

W.P. Thompson at the University of Saskatchewan Review by William Bruneau Richard Rempel. Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013; 340 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77354-174-0, $49.95 Cad. All indicators suggest biography is as popular in the 21st as in […]

La doctorante Eden Hennessey de l’Université Wilfrid-Laurier a monté l’exposition de photos intitulée #DistractinglySexist pour mettre en lumière le sexisme auquel font face les femmes dans les professions scientifiques et techniques. [Hilary Gauld] Le principe de l’objectivité est censé être […]

Les nouvelles innovations modifient le mode de traitement des maladies, affirme Molly Shoichet [Roberta Baker / Engineering Strategic Communications / University of Toronto] Utiliser le polymère pour soigner. Molly Shoichet, une professeure de génie à l’Université de Toronto, en a […]