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Canada's Western premiers and territorial leaders were unanimous in their economic call-to-arms for the restoration of the missing $3.7 billion in federal transfer payments at their annual conference last month. Following close on the heels of Martin's recent largesse which […]

Une université privée est en voie de création à Squamish, une petite ville située à trente kilomètres au nord de Vancouver. Ce projet est avancé par David Strangway, ex-recteur de l'Université de Colombie-Britannique, qui espère ainsi renforcer et diversifier le […]

Montréal, Les éditions Ma Carrière, 1999, 362 p. 12,95 $ can. (broché) Cet ouvrage de référence répertorie les 120 métiers et professions les plus recherchés aujourd'hui, et dans les années à venir, parmi les 475 principales formations offertes dans les […]

A government report is recommending that faculty and student researchers be stripped of ownership of any intellectual property they produce and their discoveries and inventions turned over to the private sector. Commenting on the final report of the Expert Panel […]

Professor Ursula Franklin, one of Canada's most distinguished scientists, will be the keynote speaker at the opening of CAUT's conference, "Universities and Colleges in the Public Interest: Stopping the Commercial Takeover of Post-Secondary Education." The focus of the conference, to […]

The conference "Academic Values in the Transformation of American Medicine," sponsored by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and held last month in Boston, raised a host of problems affecting medicine practiced in universities and teaching hospitals. A panel […]

Faculty at the University College of Cape Breton are vowing to take two outstanding grievances to the bargaining table after the administration unexpectedly withdrew agreement for an arbitration to decide the merits of a tenure appeal. "How can UCCB be […]

Recently, an Ontario decision found that treating biological and adoptive parents differently is discriminatory and in contravention of the Ontario Human Rights Code. The decision serves notice to both employers and unions to carefully review their collective agreement parental leave […]

Delegates at the "Academic Values in the Transformation of American Medicine" conference sponsored by the American Association of University Professors last month in Boston grappled with the latest developments in the scandal at Brown University and the case of David […]

A report prepared recently by a committee of the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology is urging the federal government to make universities far more commercial. The recommendations pose serious threats to university autonomy and academic freedom. The […]

The Australian government tabled what it claimed was an "education budget" in May, but it was quickly given a failing grade by university teachers. Carolyn Allport, president of Australia's National Tertiary Education Union which represents 25,000 university academic staff, said […]

The one-day strike by university staff to improve pay levels in the UK last month is only the beginning warns the nation's Association of University Teachers. The militant action is part of a national campaign to persuade university employers to […]