Bulletin Archive

University of Prince Edward Island biologist Larry Hale was elected to a two-year term as president of the CAUT Defence Fund during last month’s board of trustees meeting in Toronto. Hale takes over from Jean-Charles Cachon of Laurentian University, who […]

In today's customer & consumer-oriented society, where do students-as-customers end and students-as-learners begin? While the classroom teacher as reluctant hero has been well portrayed in movies such as Good-bye Mr. Chips, To Sir with Love and Stand and Deliver, the […]

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever felt like an utter stranger in a particular setting? Think back. It could have been your first day in grade school, or on first setting foot in a developing country, or […]

May 20, 2006 mark(ed) the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill. Quite unimportant to anyone other than myself, it also mark(ed) the 50th anniversary of my first encounter with On Liberty.Faced with a school chaplain who thought […]

Representatives of academic staff associations from coast-to-coast will gather on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Nov. 23 to meet with their members of Parliament as part of CAUT’s annual lobby. Teachers, librarians, researchers and other academic professionals will highlight the challenges […]

J'aimerais commencer par vous poser une question. Vous êtes-vous déjà sentis « étrangers » dans un environnement particulier? Pensez-y bien. Cela vous est peut-être arrivé le jour de votre entrée à l’école élémentaire, ou bien la première fois que vous […]

Le site de consultation du gouvernement fédéral sur les études et la formation postsecondaires a reçu un accueil tiède des intervenants du secteur.     Lancée sans grande publicité en août dernier par Ressources humaines et Développement social Canada, cette consultation demandait aux […]

Si parmi tous les pays développés le Canada enregistre à l’heure actuelle le plus grand nombre de personnes ayant atteint un niveau de formation postsecondaire, il pourrait être bientôt déclassé, met en garde un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE, en raison […]

The federal government needs to make post-secondary education funding a major priority of the next budget, CAUT told the House of Commons Finance Committee last month in Ottawa. “A renewed federal role in post-secondary education is essential to ensure Canada’s […]

Academic staff at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia voted overwhelmingly last month to authorize a strike.     Members of the academic staff association voted 98 per cent in favour of taking strike action to back up their union’s bargaining team.     The union said […]

Bias and discrimination, and not innate ability, are the reasons why female academics are underrepresented in many fields of science and engineering, according to a report issued last month by the National Academies in the United States.     In their 364-page report, […]

A federal government sponsored online consultation on post-secondary education is receiving a tepid response from stakeholders.     Announced with little fanfare in August, Human Resources and Social Development Canada undertook the initiative to ask Canadians about the appropriate role and priorities of […]