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The federal government has announced plans to raise the legal limit for outstanding Canada student loans from $15 billion to $19 billion. The move comes in the wake of an actuarial report on the loans program released in 2010 that […]

Le personnel académique et les syndicats se joignent aux étudiants pour défendre le droit à l’éducation Une foule massive d'étudiants a participé à la journée d'action nationale sur la Colline du Parlement à Ottawa le 1er février. (Vincent St. Martin/Graduate […]

All Out! Day of Action draws large crowd of students to Parliament Hill in Ottawa Feb. 1. (Vincent St. Martin/Graduate Students Association/Carleton) Chants resounded loudly from students and their allies at Education is a Right rallies organized by the Canadian […]

La version intégrale anglaise du rapport du CCPA peut être consultée ou téléchargée à l'adresse www.policyalternatives.ca/ paidinfull. La hausse des droits de scolarité pour financer l’éducation supérieure est une solution inopportune et inutile. Les diplômés universitaires assument les coûts de […]

Another senior staff person has left Statistics Canada, alleging the agency no longer fosters the free exchange of ideas. Philip Cross, Statscan’s chief economic analyst, resigned in January to work at the CD Howe Institute. Cross reported he had concerns […]

Westminster Hall — The British government has shelved highly contentious plans to reform the university sector. (Monika Pa/SHUTTERSTOCK.com) The UK government has withdrawn controversial new legis­lation due this spring that would have made it easier for private universities and colleges, […]

The federal government raised red flags with the announcement of a new selection process for the up-coming Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) competition. The 2012 selection board, led by an American university president and a former chief of staff to […]

University graduates pay the costs of their education “and more,” according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The report entitled Paid in Full: Who Pays for University Education in B.C. found that graduates overpay as […]

U of T postdoctoral association president Colleen Bell (left) pictured with the postdoc organizing team — Parmbir Gill, Jesse Greener, Robert Ramsay, Vanessa Parlette, Leslie Jermyn & Mikael Swayze — delivering a copy of the certification application to the university […]

Canada’s newest clinical faculty association has won a resounding 83 per cent endorsement to represent academic clinicians in negotiating a memorandum of agreement with the University of Manitoba and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Long without any effective protection of […]

Women, Feminism and the Liberal Arts Susan Brown, Jeanne Perreault, Jo-Ann Wallace & Heather Zwicker, eds. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2011; 472 pp; ISBN: 978-0-88864-550-0, paper $39.95 CAD. Reviewed by Shannon Dea I recently took part in my […]

The Challenging Role of the Canadian University President Ross H. Paul. Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011; 352 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77353-887-0, cloth $49.95 CAD. Reviewed by Michael Stevenson This book deals with important questions of conflict and […]