Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
- Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina
Forcing universities to only serve the needs of the labour market undermines their abilities to educate students and conduct research.
Academic freedom is increasingly caught up in partisan debates around freedom of speech. But the idea behind it is not only vital but shared across many other professions.
As more countries flirt with democratic backsliding, we should all be concerned. We can look to academic freedom as a gauge.
Albertans expect a draft agreement for performance-based funding for universities — but here’s why it should be scrapped.
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