Topic: Corporatization and commercialization

African researchers are ready to share more work openly – now policy must make it possible

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A person wearing protective clothing and a mask doing work in a science lab.

Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls

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Protesters outside holding signs as cars drive by.

University and school strikes across Canada are about workers’ rights — and protecting education as a public good

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Why UK universities are going on strike

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Why big university surpluses in Australia underscore the need to reform how they are funded and governed

The election of a new Labor federal government probably drew sighs of relief across the higher education sector. University staff and students […]

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Are there ever really ‘financial reasons’ to fire faculty? Laurentian University, academic freedom, and the disciplining of the professoriate

Honor Brabazon, St. Jerome’s University

The 2020–21 academic year saw two incidents of Ontario professors being effectively fired: the termination of 116 of the 345 professors at […]

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Am I becoming Professor Mindy? A reflection on “Don’t Look Up” and my position in the academy

Norin Taj and Alina Farrukh, University of Toronto

Last week I watched the film Don’t Look Up with my daughter, an anthropology student passionate about environmental issues and biodiversity loss. […]

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Remaking Australian universities: notes from the sidelines of catastrophe

Can we grieve not for a person but for an institution? Should we be angry over possibilities destroyed, young talents denied a […]

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2 out of 3 members of Australian university governing bodies have no professional expertise in the sector. There’s the making of a crisis

Shutterstock To say Australian universities are in crisis is to state the obvious. A common narrative suggests the most immediate cause of […]

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Banning non-disclosure agreements isn’t enough to stop unethical workplace leader behaviour

Ending workplace sexual harassment means going beyond holding perpetrators to account to address a ‘network of complicity’ that enables unethical conduct. (Shutterstock) […]

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