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130 million girls deserve an education so they can become empowered women
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Jan 25 2017
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Doreen Nicoll
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ONE has created a petition to help millions of girls get access to an education. The petition will be delivered to world leaders on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day.
Athabasca U's future seems brighter as Saskatchewan prof named to conduct sustainability review
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Jan 20 2017
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David J. Climenhaga
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Ken Coates is the Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan.
Canadian campuses working toward reconciliation have their work cut out
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Jan 19 2017
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Emily Blake
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Post-secondary institutions have been working to support the Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- but some are concerned if colonial institutions can ever achieve that end.
Canadian universities shifting to top-down, corporate governance are reading from the same playbook
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Jan 13 2017
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Luke Kalfleish
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The book is by Robert C. Dickeson and it's become a favourite of university administrators. Here's how to fight it.
Precarity in higher learning: Neoliberalism and contract faculty contract negotiations at WLU
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Jan 9 2017
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Dan Kellar
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As contract faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University negotiate a new contract, many in the union have recognized their struggle as a moment in the widescale resistance to neoliberal ideologies.
Anticipated court scrap between government and home schoolers ends with whimper, not bang
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Jan 6 2017
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David J. Climenhaga
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Funding to a home-schooling association has been restored, but an agreement with the government of Alberta puts the group under the supervision of an administrator.
Revolutionary program empowers girls with media literacy and activism skills
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Dec 20 2016
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Tania Ehret
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#HerDigitalVisions is an afterschool program that works with self-identified girls, building media literacy skills in order to better establish power in an online world.
Political fiasco, Nova Scotia style!
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Dec 9 2016
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Christopher Majka
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In a panic, Nova Scotia government summoned the legislature to impose a contract on teachers working to rule. Ten minutes later it adjourned. What? I talked to my source, a fly on the wall.
Grassroots learning and education beyond school
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Dec 7 2016
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Scott Neigh
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Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter and Liam O'Neill Gordon talk about the Calgary School of Informal Education.
New campus sex assault policies show Canadian universities still aren't listening to survivors
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Dec 6 2016
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Sophia Reuss
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Student activists and survivors of sexual violence have led the fight for policy development on Canadian campuses for decades. They've won important victories, but the fight continues.
Queen's history of white supremacy much longer than one racist party
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Dec 1 2016
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Kyle Curlew
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National controversy flared up after the revelation of pictures from a party held near Queen's University campus where students dressed in racist costumes. But the problem is much deeper.
Queen's racist costumes not 'just a party' for students and graduates of colour
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Nov 30 2016
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Kevin Hurren
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Attempts to shrug off the racist party at Queen's denies the real prejudice facing students and graduates of colour every day.
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..i begin here to show the atleo position.
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Chicago: Northwestern University football players seek to unionize
Catchfire said...
This is definitely a cool story. NCAA had a predictable response:
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Why the timing is good for parties from the left in Canada
socialdemocraticmiddle said...
Exactly. The Conservative economic record is NOT good, and we need an alternative.
Moreover, if the...
The latest drama in the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
Catchfire said...
My own thoughts are conflicted, but I find myself siding with the pro-CFS folk in this particular...
Labour market, University and politics-- interesting, incomplete argument from Andrew Jackson
JKR said...
Paul Krugman just wrote about this topic:
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