Bulletin Archive

Professor Nunes is correct that there are difficulties with the categories and terminology used in the cited table and figure. Unfor­tunately we are hampered by the categories that Statistics Canada has constructed to sort and collect the data in the […]

An investigative report by Globe and Mail reporters Mark Mac­Kinnon and Rod Mickleburgh is raising concerns about Canadian universities’ ties to international student recruitment agencies. The report tells the story of “Vic,” a 19-year-old Chinese student whose family paid $20,000 […]

Canada’s academic scientists and engineers are increasingly anxious about the effectiveness of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s Discovery Grant Program after only 58 per cent of applications were successful in the 2010 competition. The program’s success rate has […]

Every qualified student, Canadians and their governments believe, should have access to post-secondary education. But is near universal access a realistic goal given current tuition policy in most Canadian provinces? Are some students being systematically ex­cluded? Data suggests students from […]

Academic staff at the University of Western Ontario have voted in favour of strike action. UWO Faculty Association members voted 87 per cent in favour of a strike. Their last contract expired June 30. “This is a very strong mandate […]

Nadia Guidotto Nadia Guidotto, a student working towards a PhD in political science at York University, has been awarded CAUT’s J.H. Stewart Reid fellowship. Nadia studies gender identity and sexual orientation. She has an honours bachelor of arts degree from […]

CAUT member associations have been very successful in organizing contract academic staff and this has resulted in better pay and work conditions. But contract academics still face challenges in making the remuneration leap. And as the post-secondary sector increases the […]

Stem cells and “STEM sells” are nearly synonymous these days. Both stand for the belief that our future health and wealth will emerge from high-tech research. No wonder the humanities and social sciences are struggling to measure up to the […]

Les chercheurs et les ingénieurs des univer­sités canadiennes s’interrogent de plus en plus sé­ri­eusement sur l’efficacité du Programme de subventions à la décou­verte du Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG), compte tenu du taux […]

Les Canadiens et leurs gouvernements sont unanimes à reconnaître que l’éducation postsecon­daire devrait être accessible à tous les étudiants qualifiés. Mais l’accès quasi universel, est-ce là un objectif réaliste dans le contexte des po­litiques de droits de scolarité pra­ti­quées actuellement […]

L'Université Crandall (anciennement l’Université baptiste de l’Atlantique) vient d’être ajoutée à la liste établie par l’ACPPU des universités et collèges qui impo­sent, comme condition d’embauche, l’obligation de subir un test d’obédience idéologique ou de foi. Cette mesure fait suite à […]

Nadia Guidotto L'ACPPU a décerné cette année la bourse commémorative Stewart-Reid à Nadia Guidotto, doctorante en science politique à l’Université York. Nadia détient un baccalauréat ès arts (spécialisé) de l’Université Queen’s, une maîtrise en droit de l’Osgoode Hall Law School […]