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Une récente étude du Conseil on­ta­rien de la qualité de l’enseignement supérieur dresse un portrait plus rose des débouchés professionnels offerts aux détenteurs de doctorats. Selon la recherche, le tiers de ceux qui décrochent un doctorat d’une université ontarienne se […]

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 […]

[iStock.com/KarenFoleyPhotography] More than four decades ago at Montreal’s Sir George Williams University, a protest against the administration’s handling of a racial discrimination complaint prompted one of the biggest campus occupations in Canadian history. In 1969, students staged a 14-day sit-in […]

Life as a black Rhodes scholar A BBC interviewer once asked Stuart Hall, the celebrated Jamaican cultural theorist, about his time as a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford in the early 1950s. Had it lived up to his […]

One of the most heartening outcomes of the recent federal election was the fact that Canadian voters for the most part rejected the overt racism and xenophobia of “dog-whistle” politics. Rather less heartening, however, was the realization that so many […]

To achieve equity requires real action, says Malinda Smith Malinda Smith has had her fill of well-meaning policies and symbolic gestures. If universities really believe in equity, they should stop talking about it and do something to make it happen, […]

Multinationals are emptying the pockets of the poor in Ghana Christian Addai-Poku, president of Ghana’s National Association of Graduate Teachers, says the government is cutting off public funding & abandoning the education sector to private interests. In Ghana, everybody’s talking […]

Rani Neutill, a feminist scholar and sexual assault survivor advocate, says trigger warnings are useful in support work and in online discussion groups, but they have no place in the academic setting. As a contract instructor, Neutill used trigger warnings […]

Three months away from a spring election, the Manitoba government announced in January that it would boost spending for colleges and universities by $27.9 million. That’s a four per cent increase, bringing the total budget to $710.8 million. “We know […]