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Ronald Bercov, président de l’ACPPU en 1978-1979 et professeur émérite à l’Université de l’Alberta, est décédé le 4 avril dernier. Titulaire d’un baccalauréat en sciences de l’Université de l’Alberta obtenu en 1959, Ron poursuivit ses études à Caltech pour revenir […]

Le ministre des Finances de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Wes Sheridan, a déposé en avril un budget réservant peu de surprises aux insulaires déjà avisés que l’austérité serait au menu. Le budget du ministère de l’Inno­vation et de l’Enseignement supé­rieur a subi une […]

Siège de l'Assemblée législative à Halifax — Dans le cadre de son plan d'action du printemps, le gouvernement McNeil a déposé en avril un premier budget décevant qui, selon les critiques, confirme la tendance à négliger le secteur de l'éducation […]

Nos universités et collèges publics sont des instruments de bien-être collectif indispensables. Lieux voués à la quête du savoir, ils contribuent à l’essor social, culturel, politique et économique de la collectivité. Ils favorisent l’épanouissement d’une population instruite et capable de […]

[Jiri Flogel / shutterstock.com] Educators & students call on the next government to do more for higher education. The decision by Ontario’s opposi­tion parties to reject the minority Liberal government’s budget, tabled in the legislature by Finance Minister Charles Sousa […]

Ronald Bercov, CAUT’s pre­sident in 1978–1979 and professor eme­ritus of the University of Alberta passed away on Apr. 4. Ron graduated from the U of A in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science degree. After taking graduate degrees at Caltech […]

I attended an event at the University of British Columbia March 28 that was meant to be celebratory, but was hijacked into spreading a Conservative political agenda. The event was the announcement of UBC’s successes in the most recent competition […]

Mount Allison president Robert Campbell follows administrators out of Wu auditorium after adjourning a meeting of Faculty Council on April 3. The faculty present remained in protest & passed a vote of non-confidence in Campbell & provost Karen Grant 60–1. […]

Alberta Minister of Finance Doug Horner [Dave Cournoyer / Flickr] Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner may have restored $32.5 million to the province’s universities in his recent budget, but that still leaves institutions more than $100 million short of what […]

The sorry state of Canada’s researchers has strong parallels with the plight of Canadian workers in general. Young workers have difficulty finding proper jobs, experienced workers lose their jobs, and once unemployed, workers have great difficulty finding subsequent employment. Similarly, […]

The first day was the strangest. After more than 30 years of signing collective agree­ments, faculty and librarians at the University of New Brunswick were on the picket lines in early January this year. Nobody had been there before, at […]

New essays on women, gender, work and nation Catherine Carstairs & Nancy Janovicek, eds. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2013; 302 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77482-619-8, cloth $95 CAD. In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to “rethink” Canada […]