Bulletin Archive

The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy David W. Livingstone, Toronto: Garamond Press, 1999; 360 pp; paper $29.95 CA. The relationship between formal education and work has been a subject of increasing public scrutiny throughout the twentieth century and one […]

L'ACPPU élargit le cadre de ses travaux de recherche de concert avec Statistique Canada et l'Université Carleton. Le mois dernier, Catherine Fontaine, une étudiante à la maîtrise à l'école de statistique et de mathématique de l'Université Carleton, a entamé un […]

The World Trade Organization's third Ministerial Conference will be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 1999, in Seattle, Washington. It will launch the next major world trade negotiations due to start early in 2000. Ministers and other senior officials from […]

Ursula Franklin a mis en garde les 150 participants à la conférence de l'ACPPU, intitulée «Universities and Colleges in the Public Interest», contre la commercialisation qui éloigne le système d'enseignement postsecondaire du Canada de son engagement envers l'utilité publique et […]

Last month CAUT announced the appointment of an independent committee of inquiry to investigate events at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto involving Dr. Nancy Olivieri and Apotex Inc. The case of University of Toronto clinician […]

L'Association canadienne des professeurs et professeurs d'université a annoncé en octobre la nomination d'un comité indépendant chargé d'enquêter sur les événements survenus à l'hôpital des enfants malades et l'Université de Toronto et mettant en cause Dre Nancy Olivieri et la […]

Faculty at the University College of Cape Breton were delighted to learn last month of college president Dr. Jacquelyn Scott's decision to retire a policy requiring the school's academic deans to sign undated letters of resignation. The policy had been […]

L'ACPPU a constaté avec déception que le discours du Trône, livré le mois dernier, prévoyait si peu pour l'enseignement postsecondaire. «Il a plutôt montré une vision étonnamment modeste pour le prochain siècle, une vision qui ne semble pas vouloir réparer […]

The selection committee for the J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship is pleased to announce that Colleen Anne Dell has been awarded the Fellowship for 1999-00. Ms. Dell obtained her MA degree at the University of Manitoba and is currently enrolled […]

a prochaine conférence ministérielle de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce se tiendra du 30 novembre au 3 décembre 1999 à Seattle, Washington. L'OMC y lancera les prochaines grandes négociations sur le commerce mondial devant débuter au début de l'an 2000. Des […]

Annually, on or near December 6, people come together in communities and on campuses across Canada to commemorate the Montreal Massacre. We name the victims, light candles, sing and pray and listen to speakers. Then, we go our separate ways, […]

Ursula Franklin cautioned the 150 participants at CAUT's October conference, "Universities and Colleges in the Public Interest," that commercialization is moving Canada's post-secondary educational system away from a commitment to public usefulness and away from its primary purpose "to equip […]