Bulletin Archive

The overly protesting Drs Coates and MacLatchy (Bulletin, January 2011), in thrall to one golden rule, ignore the sage wisdom of another: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Instead of professing profound disappointment, the embarrassed principals should […]

Study Group has had its plans for a new “pathways” joint venture scuppered by the University of Windsor’s Faculty Association after a lengthy campaign that convinced university president Alan Wildeman to refuse to sanction the deal. Private education corporation Study […]

On the heels of last year’s budget that froze government funding for public post-secondary institutions and student financial assistance programs for three years, the new BC budget tabled Feb. 15 announced the freeze would extend through an additional year. The […]

Quebec Premier Jean Charest attempted to put on a strong front in his inaugural speech that recalled the National Assembly after his surprise prorogation on Feb. 4. Charest, at a record low popularity, said his Liberal government recognizes employment and […]

Under threat from the BC government, an internationally acclaimed drug watchdog group based at the University of Bri­tish Columbia has received endorsement from three federal politicians. Conservative Terence Young, Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh and New Democrat Jean Crowder threw their support […]

Photo: CUPE 3902 General assembly created out of lack of confidence in current governance of the university. More than 200 academic staff, students, alumni and friends of the University of Toronto community held a first “general assembly” last month to […]

New evidence shows the Harper Conservatives have become increasingly restrictive in allowing release of government-controlled information under access to information legislation — leading to Canada ranking as the least open government in a comparison of parliamentary democracies. Researchers Robert Hazell […]

Partnership model would cut management & make mission key again, say Rebecca Boden, Penelope Ciancanelli & Susan Wright Debates about UK university finances concentrate on income and ignore how the cash is spent even as evidence mounts about escalating university […]

A private member’s bill current­ly going through the Cana­dian parliament is poised to make a landmark statement on equality. First introduced in May 2010 by New Democratic MP Bill Siksay, Bill C-389 extends federal human rights protection against discrimination to […]

University of Saskatchewan college of law building [Photo: University of Saskatchewan] The choice of a new law dean by top administrators at the University of Saskatchewan has come as a surprise to members of a search committee whose recommendations were […]

Keith Brownwell, Myron Frankman & Robin Whyte CAUT has named a three-member committee to look into a number of serious allegations made by clinical faculty at the University of Alberta. Academic staff in the university’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry […]

Menacé par le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique, le groupe de surveillance des médicaments Therapeutics Initiative (TI) établi à l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique et reconnu à l’échelle internationale a reçu l’appui public de trois députés fédéraux — le conservateur Terence Young, […]