Topic: Public policy
Coronavirus crisis poses risks and opportunities for unions
Two health-care workers arrive at a walk-in COVID-19 test clinic in Montréal on March 23, 2020. Unionized nurses are among those on […]
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Mike Harris’s ‘common sense’ attack on Ontario schools is back — and so are teachers’ strikes
Susan Hoenhous and other teachers of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario participate in a full withdrawal of services strike in Toronto […]
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Should university and college funding be tied to how many students graduate?
Colleges are increasingly being judged on how many students graduate. But is tying funding to graduation rates the way to go? George […]
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Women in engineering: Barriers remain 30 years after École Polytechnique shooting
Engineering programs can learn about recruitment, inclusion and retention from different fields. (Shutterstock) The 30th anniversary of the Montréal Massacre is an […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
Universities don’t control the labour market: we shouldn’t fund them like they do
Some people are more employable than others. from shutterstock.com From 2020, universities will receive a certain amount of government funding based on […]
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Government funding in Australia will be tied to university performance from 2020: what does this mean, and what are the challenges?
“Buildings at University of Sydney – 9”by Ameel Khan is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Education minister Dan Tehan met with university […]
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Equity and social justice, Participation and enrolment, Public engagement, Public policy, Students, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
Bringing Indigenous viewpoints to higher education
For this issue, Ojibway author and journalist Tanya Talaga sat down with Victoria McMurchy from Academic Matters to discuss how Canadian postsecondary […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Performance assessment, Public engagement, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
What Doug Ford could learn from Wisconsin about higher education
The entrance to the agriculture building at the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus. Shutterstock Buried within Ontario’s 2019 budget is a drastic […]
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The more women in government, the healthier a population
Canada’s Minister of the Status of Women Maryam Monsef is pictured in the Library of Parliament on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on […]
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