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Performance-based funding (PBF) of post-secondary education may be an old idea, but it’s one that’s gathering new steam in Canada. Canadian provinces have traditionally funded post-secondary institutions, for the most part, to reflect enrolment, and the growing focus on PBF […]

Louise Briand is a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). She is also Vice-President, University Sector of the Fédération des professionnèles (FP-CSN). After serving six years as President of the UQO […]

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By Brenda Austin-Smith “Stronger Together” was the theme of CAUT’s member association Council last November. As delegates entered the hall for our meeting, the image of that motto communicated our commitment to solidarity, and our belief in resilience. Inspired by […]

Paul W. Gooch University of Toronto Press, 2019; 256 pp; ISBN: 978-1-48752-356-5. By Howard A. Doughty Paul W. Gooch is president emeritus and professor of philosophy at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. This biographical detail is important. It […]

The majority of Canadian provinces are currently ruled by conservative governments, however they might be named: the United Conservative Party, the Saskatchewan Party, the Coalition Avenir Québec, or the Progressive Conservatives. It is certainly not the first time in Canada’s […]

By Marc Spooner Like clumsily knocked over dominoes, one by one our provincial governments are tripping over themselves in their rush to impose under-developed and misguided performance-based funding schemes upon their post-secondary education sectors. As Alberta scrambles to meet its […]

Michael Lynk is an associate professor at Western University’s Faculty of Law, where he has taught courses in labour, human rights, disability, constitutional and administrative law since 1999. He has served as a labour arbitrator for two decades and as […]

CAUT condemns recent violent police and government attacks at three of India’s leading universities: Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Over the past month, police and government-backed thugs have beaten students and teachers, and […]