Bulletin Archive

In a report released last month, Statistics Canada says the so-called "brain drain" of highly skilled Canadians to the United States remains small in an historical sense, small in relation to the supply of workers in sensitive occupations, and is […]

On May 25 the B.C. Labour Relations Board issued a decision which confirmed the University of British Columbia Faculty Association as "the sole collective bargaining agent for a unit which includes both sessionals and faculty." In its ruling, the board […]

CAUT is supporting three Trent University faculty members seeking judicial review of a Trent Board of Governors' decision to overrule the university's senate. The issue arose from Trent president Bonnie Patterson's proposal to close the university's two downtown colleges, sell […]

Canada's university libraries are conspicuous victims of provincial and federal underfunding of post-secondary education. The annual survey by the Association of Research Libraries found that only 11 university libraries suffered a decline in total expenditures between 1993­94 and 1998­99 – […]

After a year and a half of talks and the first special meeting of the McGill senate in more than a decade, senators are no closer to approving a new policy on intellectual property rights for faculty. On May 31 […]

On May 23, CAUT president Tom Booth wrote to Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe calling on him to publicly condemn acts of violence against teachers, particularly in rural areas of Zimbabwe. With elections in Zimbabwe imminent, human rights agencies believe teachers […]

CAUT has donated $1,000 to assist two Colombians seeking political asylum in Canada. The request for assistance came from Education International, the world-wide body of teachers unions from more than 100 countries. "CAUT is pleased to assist in this effort," […]

There is plenty of room to criticize the Ontario government's plan to allow private universities in the province. Most of the criticisms being made, however, strike me as being wide of the mark. Both supporters and opponents of private universities […]

Queen's faculty will get a salary increase, but not as much as they hoped for, an arbitrator has ruled. The 1999-2002 collective agreement at Queen's University provides for scale increases for 2000 and 2001 to be negotiated each year, with […]

"We are harvesting our children as a cash crop." This stark keynote message from Alex Molnar, head of the U.S.-based Centre for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education, captured the sentiments of the three hundred educators, support staff and students […]

Andrew Jackson, David Robinson with Bob Baldwin & Cindy Wiggins. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2000; 202 pp; paper $19.95. Falling Behind: The State of Working Canada 2000 is the first comprehensive account of how the poor economic performance […]

Most universities in the United Kingdom are grossly discriminatory employers, according to latest figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The HESA figures, published in The Times Higher Education Supplement in April, reveal that in 1998­99 only 9.8 per […]