Topic: Funding

A group of students wearing graduation hats

What happens if a university goes bust?

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A group of people wearing suits sitting at a big conference table.

The Universities Accord will plan for the next 30 years: what big issues must it address?

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A woman looks in a microscope

Two decades of stagnant funding have rendered Canada uncompetitive in biomedical research. Here’s why it matters, and how to fix it.

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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 walking down the street carrying signs in support of education workers.

Ontario education strike fallout: Workers’ anger about economic inequalities and labour precarity could spark wider job action

CUPE members and supporters join a demonstration outside the office of Parm Gill, Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Milton, […]

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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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Constructing the futures of Canadian universities

Ian Roberge, York University

This article is interested in the futures of Canadian universities. Around the world, much has been written about the futures of universities. […]

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