Bulletin Archive

Des centaines d'étudiants se sont rassemblés sur la Colline du Parlement le 25 novembre pour protester contre le coût élevé des études supérieures. Dans le cadre de la campagne « L’éducation est un droit », les leaders étudiants de partout […]

à gauche: Lisa Sharp Lisa Sharp, profes­seure de biolo­gie à l’Université du Nouveau-Brunswick et membre du Comité des femmes de l’ACPPU, a été élue à la présidence du co­mité jusqu’à la fin du mandat pré­vu pour Paddy Musson, qui a […]

Le plus haut tribunal du Canada a rejeté la demande d’autorisa­tion présentée par l’association du personnel académique de l’Univer­sité de la Colombie-Britannique (UBCFA), et appuyée par l’ACPPU, pour porter en appel la décision de la Cour d’appel provinciale qui avait […]

Le Dr Larry Reynolds a été réintégré dans ses fonctions de professeur de médecine aux départements de médecine familiale et obstétrique, gynécologie et sciences de la reproduction à l’Université du Manitoba et à l’Office régional de la santé de Winnipeg […]

Dr. Larry Reynolds has been restored as professor of medicine at the University of Manito­ba and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, with joint ap­pointments in family medicine and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences. In response, CAUT dropped its plans to […]

Canada’s highest court has denied the University of British Columbia Faculty Association’s application, supported by CAUT, for leave to appeal a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that upheld an arbitrator’s ruling that he did not have jurisdiction over a grievance […]

The dismissal of Balsillie school director Ramesh Thakur was the consequence of the universities’ serious lapse of judgment & loss of commitment to institutional autonomy & academic integrity. [Photo: Mathew McCarthy/Waterloo Region Record] An investigation has found that the Univer­sity […]

[Photo: Alonso Nichols / Tufts University] Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the interdependence of teaching & research ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am in Baltimore, Maryland, giving lectures at a peculiar university. Johns Hopkins, who founded it, was an oddity: an abolitionist raised on a […]

On Sept. 19 about 100 Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg community members and other supporters, including Shawn Atleo, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, kicked off an “education awareness” walk from their homes near Maniwaki, Que, to Ottawa. The […]

In response to the article “NSERC Discovery Grants Spiral Downward” (Bulletin, October 2010), I would like to address some of the concerns raised about success rates and correct a few factual errors. As mentioned in the article, NSERC undertook a […]

The reality is the overall success rate of the Discovery Grants Program has dropped at an alarming rate. The charge to the inter­national review committee was precisely to assess whether the relatively high success rate in DGP competitions (70 per […]

The report, 52 pages called The Benefits of Greater Differentiation of Ontario’s University Sector, supports a centralized planning approach & calls for a system of specialization to be imposed on the province’s universities. The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario […]