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Selon les représentants des associations d'étudiants et de professeurs, le gouvernement fédéral a raté l'occasion, dans son budget de 2005, de répondre aux principaux défis auxquels fait face le système d'enseignement postsecondaire au Canada. « Rien dans le budget n'apporte […]

Après presque une année de retard, l'Association des professeures et professeurs d'université de St. Francis Xavier (StFXAUT) a remporté en janvier dernier le vote pour représenter tous les membres du corps universitaire. « Nous sommes heureux d'être solidement accrédités par […]

Si nous nous mettions tout à coup à saigner abondamment au travail, nous nous empresserions d'obtenir des soins médicaux. Pourtant lorsqu'il nous arrive de saigner du cœur, nous ne faisons rien pour panser la blessure. Le stress professionnel pose un […]

CAUT joined an international delegation last month in an intensive three-day lobby of senior trade negotiators at the World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Organized by Education International, which represents 350 teachers' organizations worldwide, the lobbying meetings focused on […]

If we suddenly began to bleed uncontrollably at work, we would seek medical help. Yet sometimes when we are emotionally bleeding, we do nothing to help ourselves. Occupational stress is a very real problem in our post-secondary institutions. A recent […]

Instead of higher education being a tacit contract between generations, we are being asked to think of it as a series of individual contracts made by private individuals. The Bob Rae review of higher education documents the detrimental effects of […]

Contract academic staff and part-time librarians at Wilfrid Laurier University are getting a 10 per cent salary increase over three years after ratifying a collective agreement earlier this year. Supplementary pay or grading assistance for larger classes, a tuition subsidy […]

New four-year collective agreements covering full-time and part-time faculty members at St. Thomas University were ratified in February. The settlement for the full-time academic staff was reached with the assistance of a provincial mediator, after members voted in favour of […]

Government Fails to Meet Post-Secondary Needs Student and faculty groups say this year's federal budget missed the opportunity to tackle the key challenges facing Canada's post-secondary education system. CAUT president Loretta Czernis said there was "nothing in the budget that […]

After almost a year of delays, the St. Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers won the vote in late January to represent all academic staff at the university. "We are happy to have a solid 60 per cent majority support […]

Will C. van den Hoonaard, ed. Toronto, Buffalo & London: University of Toronto Press, 2002; 240 pp; ISBN: 0-8020-3683-X, hardcover $58 CA.; ISBN: 0-8020-8523-7, paper $27.95 CA. In recent years social science research projects have been required to undergo increasingly […]

Interdisciplinary Education, Collaborative Learning and Experimentation in Higher Education Barbara Leigh Smith & John McCann, eds. Bolton Massachusetts: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2001; 500 pp; ISBN: 1-882982-35-5, hardcover $49.95 US. Reinventing Ourselves examines the experiences of and lessons learned from […]