On November 10, over 203,000 McGill University and CEGEP students in Quebec chose to have a one day general strike in protest of the upcoming tuition hikes. While 30,000-plus students marched through downtown Montreal, 14 students entered McGill University's James Administration building and peacefully occupied Principal Heather Munroe-Blum's office on the fifth-floor.

A Word: Un Mot:

On Nov. 10, The Link, The McGill Daily, and Le Délit will come together and take to the streets in solidarity with thousands of university students across Quebec to distribute a copy of the special insert you're holding.

It's not the first time our student papers have been compelled to put out a joint paper. Our last collaboration was in 1989, after the Montreal Massacre at the École Polytechnique, when students "came together to put their thoughts and feelings on paper."

This week, we're joining forces as Quebec students are facing yet another historic moment in the ongoing fight to keep education accessible.

More than 100,000 post-secondary students in Quebec have a one-day strike mandate to protest tuition fee hikes on Nov. 10, while thousands more will vote on approving one in the next few days.

It's the latest action from a significant student movement whose protests have sometimes resulted in the occupation of government offices and devolved into tear-gas-laced clashes with riot police.

The European University Association (EUA) recently released a report they'd commissioned entitled Global University Rankings and Their Impact. The report was written by Andrejs Rauhvargers.

According to the EAU, one of their major motivations in commissioning the report was that their member universities are "often under pressure to appear in the rankings, or to improve their position in one way or another."

Some of the report's findings include the following: