An investigation has found that the Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier unjustly fired the director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs after he objected to inappropriate pressure by the school’s principal private partner, the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

A teacher’s vocation should be a qualification for a grant or a job in research. And when researchers publish their results, they should think of their task as teaching in print.

On Sept. 19 about 100 Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg community members and other supporters, including the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, kicked off an “education awareness” walk from their homes near Maniwaki, Que, to Ottawa. The group walked 150 kilometres to march to Parliament Hill for a rally event highlighting the ongoing crisis in First Nations education.

In response to the article “NSERC Discovery Grants Spiral Downward” (Bulletin, October 2010), I would like to address some of the concerns raised about success rates and correct a few factual errors.

The reality is the overall success rate of the Discovery Grants Program has dropped at an alarming rate. The charge to the inter­national review committee was precisely to assess whether the relatively high success rate in DGP competitions (70 per cent in 2007) at the time was justified.

We were intrigued by Thomas Tiedje’s commentary “Is your ranking holding you down?” (Bulletin, October 2010). It is worthwhile stating at the outset that our view is not the same as Disraeli’s/Twain’s: “Lies, damned lies and statistics.” We believe data and statistics should form the basis of decision making whenever possible.

I read with admiration the CAUT Almanac included with the September edition of the Bulletin. But I was disappointed when looking over the Almanac figures summarizing academic staff by visible minority and ethno-cultural background.

It is correct that there are difficulties with the categories and terminology used in the cited table and figure. Unfor­tunately we are hampered by the categories that Statistics Canada has constructed to sort and collect the data in the first instance.

An investigative report by Globe and Mail reporters Mark Mac­Kinnon and Rod Mickleburgh is raising concerns about Canadian universities’ ties to international student recruitment agencies.

The University of Western On­tario Faculty Association has reached a tentative contract with the university administration. Details of the new agreement have been withheld until ratified by union members.

The federal government has announced the creation of an advisory panel to make recommendations on how to improve business investment in research and development in Canada, after a report by the Council of Canadian Academies found investment persistently lags despite more than $billion of government support each year.

The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario is calling for greater differentiation among Ontario’s universities to achieve higher global rankings and greater efficiencies in education delivery.

Canadian Mennonite Univer­sity in Winnipeg has been added to CAUT’s list of universities and colleges that have a faith or ideological test as a condition of employment.

Today, 60 years on from his death, Orwell remains a fundamentally important literary and political figure. His politics combined well with his fiction and his nonfiction, and his name is widely used to describe a certain kind of politics.

Un comité d’enquête a conclu que le directeur de la Balsillie School of International Affairs avait été licencié injustement par l’Université de Waterloo et l’Université Wilfrid-Laurier pour s’être élevé contre les pressions indues exercées par le principal partenaire privé de l’école.

Partis de Maniwaki (Québec), quelque 100 membres de la communauté de Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg et de sympathisants, accompagnés par le chef national de l’Assemblée des Premières Nations, sont arrivés à Ottawa après avoir parcouru à pied 150 kilomètres.

L'ACPPU vient d’ajouter la Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) de Winnipeg à sa liste des universités et collèges qui imposent, comme condition d’embauche, l’obligation de subir un test d’obédience idéologique ou de foi.

Après qu’un rapport du Conseil des académies canadiennes (CAC) eut mis en évidence le retard persistant des investissements en recherche-développement, le gouvernement fédéral a annoncé la création d’un groupe consultatif chargé de recommander des façons d’améliorer les investissements des entreprises en R-D au Canada.

Le Conseil ontarien de la qualité de l’enseignement supérieur (COQES) appelle à une plus grande différenciation au sein du secteur universitaire onta­rien pour permettre aux éta­blissements de progresser dans le classement général et d’offrir des services éducatifs encore plus efficaces.

Une enquête-reportage réalisée par deux journalistes du Globe and Mail soulève des inquiétudes sur les liens que les universités canadiennes entretiennent avec les agences de recrutement d’étudiants étrangers.