Bulletin Archive

Higher education faculty from 16 states and four Canadian provinces gathered in San Jose, California recently for COCAL IV, a national conference on contingent academic labour. The January conference, hosted by the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA), brought together more […]

Invoquant le motif de discrimination, la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants a déposé devant la Cour supérieure de l'Ontario une requête en vue de contester la constitutionnalité de certaines dispositions de la Loi sur la faillite et l'insolvabilité qui […]

A patchwork quilt of provincial policies is creating serious disparities in educational opportunity across Canada, says the second annual report on the state of post-secondary education released in January by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). According to the […]

Dans le but d'attirer des universitaires étrangers spécialisés en technologie de l'information, en génie, en sciences de la santé et en finances, le gouvernement du Québec leur offre un congé fiscal de cinq ans afin qu'ils acceptent des postes dans […]

Student and faculty protestors disrupt a board meeting demanding an opportunity to voice concerns about the closing of two downtown colleges. At its January meeting, Trent University's board of governors provoked an angry response from student and faculty demonstrators when […]

Le discours du Trône, ouvrant la première session de la 37e Législature, a été prononcé à la fin de janvier. Le gouvernement s'est engagé à mieux cibler ses investissements dans la recherche universitaire. Toutefois, l'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs […]

The Speech from the Throne, opening the 37th session of Parliament, was delivered in January with promises the government will continue to strategically target funding for university research. But CAUT is warning the Liberal government's plans will jeopardize the integrity […]

La grève des quelque 350 chargés de cours de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, qui durait depuis neuf semaines, a pris fin le 9 janvier dernier. Les chargés de cours ont voté à 75 p. 100 en faveur d'un règlement. […]

Troubled Times: Academic Freedom in New Zealand Rob Crozier, ed. Palmerston, New Zealand: Dunmore Press, 2000; 302 pp; paper $16 US. With his customary shrewd insight and clarity, Donald Savage reports on the state of academic freedom in New Zealand […]

The Canadian university is quickly becoming less a public institution and more a private one, concludes the current issue of CAUT's Education Review. Based on the latest figures available on university finances, the report finds that universities and university colleges […]

CAUT is stepping up its campaign work in 2001 with the launch in Halifax on Mar. 9­10 of the first in a series of cross-country hearings on the state of post-secondary education in Canada. The Halifax forum — sponsored by […]

I feel like a John Ibbitson coupon clipper. Over the past two years I've been collecting the Globe and Mail columnist's articles on education, and fittingly, they are very instructive. Occasionally insightful and always bombastic, they are the basis for […]