Bulletin Archive

On March 8, women across the world marched against poverty and violence to mark the commemoration of International Women's Day. Labour and social activists from around the globe will be participating in events for the next eight months to demand […]

Part-time staff in Britain will benefit from new government regulations that will require employees on part-time contracts to receive terms and conditions which are "pro rata temporis" with comparable full-time employees. Malcolm Keight, assistant general secretary of the Association of […]

De plus en plus, l'espoir des familles canadiennes de voir leurs enfants poursuivre des études universitaires ou collégiales s'estompe, selon les conclusions d'un rapport rendu public en février par l'ACPPU. Le dossier Hors de portée. Les dépenses en éducation : […]

Part-time academic staff won an important victory recently when a Washington state court ruled that work part-timers do outside the classroom must be counted toward their retirement benefits. The court said, that in addition to class time, institutions must count […]

Conciliation fails — government appoints mediator. Conciliation talks at the University College of Cape Breton failed March 8 when the administration broke off negotiations. The government responded by appointing a mediator — a step supported by the faculty association to […]

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has served notice to American universities and colleges that it may require them to pay tax on revenue arising from commercial deals with soft-drink companies, athletic equipment manufacturers and advertising agencies that have exclusive deals […]

After a ten-day organizing campaign, the Association of Professors of Bishop's University has applied for certification of a new bargaining unit for contract academic staff. According to organizing campaign leader Thomas Hood, the drive was initiated by a group of […]

Chalk Lines: The Politics of Work in the Managed University Randy Martin, ed. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999; 310 pp; paper $17.95; cloth $49.95 US. The 1996 strike of teaching assistants and service employees at prestigious Yale University served […]

The $2.5 billion supplement to the Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST) announced in February's federal budget does almost nothing to address problems created by seven years of budget cuts and may not even translate into any increased funding for […]

Holly Crumpton & Maureen S.G. Hawkins We academics rightly value our autonomy in curricular matters -- after all, we are experts in our fields. Who should know better than we what should be included in our courses or curricula? That […]

After an auspicious beginning, February turned into a bad month for post-secondary education in Canada. The highpoint was Feb. 2 when the Canadian Federation of Students held lively Access 2000 events in more than 50 cities in support of better […]

Education International's Global Action Week for Education (from 3 to 8 April 2000) forms part of the new Global Campaign for Education launched in mid-October to mobilize public pressure on governments to fulfil their promises to provide free, quality education […]