The Conversation
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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The mental health crisis on campus and how universities and colleges can fix it
Campus counseling centers are seeing an influx of students seeking help with mental health issues. Motortion/Shutterstock.com When college students seek help for […]
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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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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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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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