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Le ministre des Finances de l'Alberta, Doug Horner [Dave Cournoyer / Flickr] Les universités albertaines ont eu beau récupérer 32,5 millions de dollars dans le récent budget provincial déposé par le ministre des Finances Doug Horner, c’est tout de même une […]

CAUT has appointed an ad hoc investigatory committee to examine and report on alleged problems in the faculty of architecture at the University of Manitoba. The committee is to determine whether there has been interference with the duties and responsibilities […]

Le gouvernement de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador maintient le gel des droits de scolarité de longue date à l’éducation postsecondaire, et élimine progressivement les prêts aux étudiants pour les remplacer par un programme de bourses d’études, selon le nouveau budget provincial déposé récemment. […]

Jess Turk-Browne CAUT has hired Jess Turk-Browne as associate executive director responsible for overseeing the administration of all financial and office functions in the organization. Jess replaces Gordon Piché, who retired in March after three decades as associate executive director […]

Manitoba's provincial budget calls for another 2.5 per cent increase in funding this year for the province's universities, which was on par with what was expected & what was allotted last year. Colleges will get a 2 per cent increase. […]

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is maintaining the long-running post-secondary tui­tion freeze, while also phasing out student loans and reintroducing a grant program in its place, according to the recent provincial budget announcement. The move to a grants-only system […]

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s latest research innovation is an interactive map that shows how paying for full-time undergraduate university has chang­ed since 1975. It answers questions like: With so many more people going to university, is the experience […]

William G. Bowen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013; 192 pp; ISBN: 978-0-69115-930-0, cloth $26.95 USD. Review by Derek Briton In his Ethics (I.3,) Aristotle notes: “a well-schooled man is one who searches for that degree of precision in each […]

How technology and the public are shaping TV news Rena Bivens. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2014; 336 pp; ISBN: 978-1-44261-586-1, paper $32.95 CAD. Social media has irrevocably changed how people consume the news. With the distinction between professional […]

Triumph of the BRICs? Martin Carnoy, Prashant Loyalka, Maria Dobryakova, Rafiq Dossani, Isak Froumin, Katherine Kuhns, Jandhyala B.G. Tilak & Rong Wang. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013; 404 pp; ISBN: 978-0-80478-601-0, cloth $60 USD. This is a study […]

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 […]

Creating and sustaining communities of inquiry Norman D. Vaughan, Martha Cleveland-Innes & D. Randy Garrison. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press, 2013; 154 pp; ISBN: 978-1-92735-647-0, paper $24.95 CAD. Teaching in Blended Learning Environments provides a coherent framework in which to […]