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Accentuer l'importance du rôle de l'enseignement postsecondaire dans la société canadienne, accroître le financement de l'enseignement postsecondaire, mobiliser des fonds stables et prévisibles et améliorer les programmes d'aide aux étudiants : ce sont là les principales recommandations qui ressortent d'un […]

Nearly seven in 10 Canadians believe that today's tuition fees are keeping qualified people from getting a university or college education, according to a public opinion survey commissioned by CAUT. The poll, released last month, found that 68 per cent […]

Selon un sondage d'opinion commandé par l'ACPPU, près de sept Canadiens sur dix estiment que le niveau élevé des droits de scolarité empêche les gens qualifiés de faire des études universitaires ou collégiales. Le sondage, dont les résultats ont été […]

Academic staff unions and associations from around the globe have unveiled an ambitious project designed to counter the increasing commercialization and globalization of higher education. Meeting in Dakar, Senegal last month, the higher education affiliates of Education International reaffirmed their […]

Mythe : La majorité des universitaires contractuels sont des femmes. Réalité : Les femmes et les hommes occupent presque le même nombre de postes de contractuels dans les universités. Selon une enquête réalisée de 1990 à 1992 auprès de 20 […]

Myth: Most contract academics are women. Fact: Men & women hold almost the same number of contract academic postions. According to a survey conducted from 1990 to 1992 of 20 universities across Canada, men and women are almost equally represented […]

More focus on the importance of post-secondary education to Canadian society, a need for increased, stable and predictable funding to support post-secondary education, and improved student aid were the key recommendations coming out of a recent policy forum sponsored last […]

CAUT brought together grievance officers from faculty associations across Canada for the association's first annual senior grievance officers workshop Nov. 7-9 in Ottawa. In his opening remarks, CAUT president Victor Catano underscored the importance of the work undertaken by grievance […]

Peter Eglin & Stephen Hester, eds. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003; 167 pp; paper $29.95 CA. The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis adopts an ethnomethodological viewpoint to analyze how the murder of women by a […]

Dawn Williams. Toronto: D.P. Williams & Associates, 2002; 421 pp; hardcover $59.99 CA., paper $39.99 CA. Canada's Blacks are trailblazers and innovators. But just who are they? If you've ever wondered who the leading Black citizens are in our society […]

Elizabeth McIninch, ed. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Carol-Canada Publications Ltd., 2003; 224 pp; hardcover $59.95 CA. Canada: The New Millennium Series highlights our nation's accomplishments through highly-informative original articles by leading Canadians. Among them are historian Desmond Morton's overview on Canadian […]

The Erosion of Democracy in Education: From Critique to Possibilities John P. Portelli & R. Patrick Solomon, eds. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 2001; 328 pp; paper $26.95 CA. In 1925, a British Columbia Royal Commission insisted that: "The development of […]