A former chief information officer of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU [http://www.cou.on.ca/]) is accused of stealing over $600,000 from the organization. Janet Donio, who is alleged to have committed the fraud, committed suicide while she was being investigated. The COU is an umbrella organization…
British Columbia is taking heat [http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=2b97d647-5126-4c92-a793-0cc9003515f9] for acting slower than a tortoise (actually, that may be an insult to tortoises) in shutting down another illegally operated “university” in the province. You’d think BC might have learned from recent embarrassments [http://www.…
Associated Press [http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=142733&sc=607]: "When Rock Hill school officials tell commencement crowds to hold their applause until the end, they mean it. Police arrested seven people after they were accused of loud cheering during the ceremonies." Notes to self: 1. Don’t…
Michael Cotey Morgan [http://www.yale.edu/history/gradstudents/morgan_m.html], a Canadian who is a Ph.D candidate at Yale, suggests [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080610.wcomment0610/BNStory/specialComment/home] the Canadian public service should offer subsidized university education in exchange for a time-period of…
The Ontario government introduced legislation today which will allow the province’s over 17,000 part-time and sessional college workers to unionize. The changes to the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (CCBA) will remove provision that forbid part-time college workers from unionizing. The bill will also allow colleges to use replacement…
Striking Teaching Assistants at McGill University will vote Thursday on a tentative agreement put forth by a government appointed conciliator. The proposal could end the bitter nine week strike. The conciliator is recommending pay increases of 2.5 per cent in the first year, 3 per cent in the second…
One year after the launch of a $200 million lawsuit [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2007/06/05/students-launch-lawsuit-against-ontario-colleges/] against Ontario’s public colleges over disputed ancillary fees, Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities John Milloy says his government is reviewing ancillary fees charged by colleges to make…
A couple of housekeeping items before I close the day. 1. Expect an Ontario college ancillary fees story mid-afternoon tomorrow. I have to do an interview in the morning to round out the story. Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities gave me some decent answers this afternoon. 2.…