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Three-tier education system in Quebec: The state of the situation
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No one benefits from a two-tiered university professoriate
For many Canadians, a professor is a professor. The truth is that the professional and economic conditions of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty and contracted instructors are drastically different.
Putting an end to the student debt sentence
Student debt forgiveness has sparked hope in the U.S. Canada should pay attention.
A safe and healthy post-secondary education sector in a COVID-19 world
As universities and colleges begin to re-open and develop plans for the fall semester, we need to think carefully about what health and safety looks…
PSE student support program: Does it pass the test?
At least 1.17 million post secondary education (PSE) students or recent grads will use the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB). They wouldn’t have been able…
Tax cuts won’t fix the affordability problem. Here are ten things that could.
Investment Annual cost Expand affordable child care $3 Billion Increase health care funding to keep pace with rising provincial health care costs $1.98 Billion Ensure…
Contract faculty: So much more to know
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Cutting crew: What the 10% tuition fee reduction really means for Ontario
Wait—a 10% tuition fee reduction, followed by a freeze. In [checks notes] Doug Ford’s Ontario?
Long overdue: Taking a closer look at university library funding
As we continue to dig into university and college finances in Ontario, what becomes apparent is not only the change in revenue sources these institutions…
Pushing back against campus precarity
A lot of numbers are circulated during the coverage of a strike. But in the current strike by Ontario college faculty, two in particular stand…
Higher learning, lower earning? The state of employment on Ontario campuses
It’s no secret that university and college revenues are shifting, with the public component of funding largely in decline. It’s also no secret—or coincidence—that the…
Absolute Zero: It’s time to put pro-tuition arguments on ice
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