International How to unlock the potential of Canada’s skilled work force | The latest census release suggests that Canada should have a big competitive advantage in today’s information-driven global economy. That’s because 54 per cent of Canadians betwen the ages of 25 and 64 have college or university qualifications, aContinue Reading
International President announces fee-free undergraduate education | Defying the advice of the commission he appointed to look into the issue of fee-free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday 16 December announced in a statement that the African National Congress-led government would introduce fully subsidised free higher educationContinue Reading
International Can Sexual Predators Be Good Scholars? | Arendt’s vision of artistic retribution is comforting. If literature or scholarship reflected its author’s moral failings, brutality would contravene brilliance: Wrongdoing would amount to its own punishment. We would never have to confront the galling affront of a beautiful thought birthed byContinue Reading
International The precarious workforce: An ongoing threat to quality higher education | As full-time professors retire, universities are not replacing tenure-stream positions at the same rate; instead, more and more courses are being taught on a contract basis (remunerated per course) or through limited-term or sessional positions (where instructors teachContinue Reading
International Venezuela’s universities feel the sting of economic and political crisis | Venezuela’s economic and political crisis has sparked food and medical shortages, the world’s highest inflation rate and allegations of a power grab by the ruling socialists. But it is also threatening the country’s future by ravaging higher education.Continue Reading
