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Thousands of Québec students on general strike

Photo: Stefan Christoff
Thousands of students in Québec are protesting tuition fee hikes by the Québec Liberal government.

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Mass meeting sends U of T agreement to ratification

CUPE 3902 members vote on the proposed agreement after a five-hour mass meeting. Photo: Mick Sweetman
CUPE 3902 members voted in favour of sending a tentative U of T agreement to a unit-wide ratification vote.

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University of Toronto plan decimates languages, humanities programs

A radical consolidation proposal has been announced at the University of Toronto -- programs to be disbanded, minimalized or merged. One casualty is the comparative literature centre founded by Canadian icon Northrop Frye. Photo: szasukephotography/Flickr

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has unveiled a sweeping plan to merge several academic departments and eliminate others, including the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and the Centre for Ethics. Simultaneously, the Centre for Comparative Literature is to be reduced to a collaborative program unable to grant degrees.

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David J. Climenhaga

Athabasca University board to Athabasca U Faculty Association: Drop dead

| May 13, 2013

What price would you pay for an education?

| May 1, 2013

One year after the Maple Spring: PQ summit looks like a mere public relations operation

One year ago to the day, my colleague Jeanne Reynolds and I announced the start by the CLASSE of an unlimited general strike against the 75 per cent increase in tuition fees announced by the Charest government.

On February 14, 2012, there were barely 20,000 people who began to walk out. At that point we did not have the least idea that we were at the birth of what would become the greatest citizens' mobilization in the history of contemporary Quebec. Where are we now, one year later?

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Beyond job training: Cultivating an expanded role for universities

Photo: Gianpierre Soto/Flickr

Whew. The Maclean's issue ranking Canadian universities, just out, still bases its ratings on what goes on in them, rather than their success in supplying grads with jobs. Everywhere else in the debate over higher ed with which we've been inundated (whoops, bad phrase this week, call it a ceaseless din), the focus has been on the failure of universities to assure jobs for grads. That's because their "education is poorly matched with the national economy" and the jobs now available, say professors Ken Coates and Bill Morrison in a recent book and Walrus article. Grads may still have a better shot at jobs than non-grads, they concede, but the "rate of return" on their educational investment as baristas or parking valets doesn't justify the costs incurred. U.K.

'Too Asian?' anthology takes Maclean's to task

Too Asian?: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education

Too Asian?: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education

by RJ Gilmour, Davina Bhandar, Jeet Heer, and Michael C.K. Ma, eds.
(Between The Lines,
2012;
$26.95)

Recently, the Bank of Canada removed the image of an Asian woman peering into a microscope from its new $100 banknotes after focus groups participants viewed the woman’s “racialized” identity as an issue warranting review. Equally reprehensible was how Canada’s central banking institution chose to resolve this dilemma: by replacing the original image with one of a European woman (i.e. a woman with a “neutral” ethnicity, according to a spokesperson).

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Theresa Ketterling

Mergers and money problems at Nova Scotia schools

| September 20, 2012
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