The Conversation
Legal win doesn’t mean Ontario student associations are in the clear
Students walk on campus at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ont., in March 2017. An Ontario court recently ruled in favour […]
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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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Ontario’s high school e-learning still hasn’t addressed students with special needs
Following a negotiation impasse, Ontario public secondary teachers walked off the job on a one-day strike. Here, striking teachers are seen outside […]
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Capitalist creep on campus: the largest, quietest privatisation in UK history – it’s why we’re striking
Pexels For the next week and a half, many UK university lecturers will be on strike again, but who outside of academia […]
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Collective bargaining, Corporatization and commercialization, Politics, Universities and the academic mission
University strikes in the UK: Why they’re happening and what you need to know
shutterstock/Ray Morgan Eight days of strike action announced by academics will run November 25 until December 4. After that, industrial action will […]
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Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source, Students
Textbooks could be free if universities rewarded professors for writing them
Universities have a responsibility to reduce barriers in student learning, and one way to do this is through creating textbooks that […]
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Academic freedom is under threat around the world – here’s how to defend it
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. shutterstock/Piotr Wawrzyniuk Academic freedom is at the heart of successful universities. UNESCO defines it as the right “to […]
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When big companies fund academic research, the truth often comes last
Industry funders can go to great lengths to suppress the findings of academic research when it’s not favourable to the company. from […]
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Teaching truth and reconciliation in Canada: The perfect place to begin is right where a teacher stands
Despite challenges, teacher education offers a path to begin righting inequities and injustice. Here, people stand on a map from the Indigenous […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Knowledge and skills development, Universities and the academic mission
The problem with the push for more degrees
RIDTHISING/Shutterstock.com In a 2009 speech, President Barack Obama proclaimed that by 2020, the United States will “once again have the highest proportion […]
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