Where to from here?
Advocacy group releases post-secondary education vision and plan
By Brett Bergie
Public Interest Alberta and its Post-Secondary Education Task Force recently released a discussion document titled, Where to From Here: A Vision and Plan for Post-Secondary Education in Alberta. The document sets out an ambitious plan for Alberta’s post-secondary education system arrived at after extensive consultations with the public and deliberations by members of Public Interest Alberta’s Post-Secondary Education Task Force. More...
Where to From Here: A Vision and Plan for Post-Secondary Education in Alberta is a discussion paper that was released recently by Public Interest Alberta and its Post-Secondary Education Task Force partners, which includes ACIFA.
The labour scene
By Terry Sway
At Grant MacEwan College, the Faculty Association and the Board of Governors reached a memorandum of agreement. The one-year agreement completes a four-year term with the fourth and final year limited to a re-opener for salary only. The parties have ratified the agreement with a 4.1% salary increase effective July 1, 2007. More...
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A tale of accountability
The Canada Social Transfer and post-secondary education
By Brett Bergie
The Federal Budget, tabled last month by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, promises to invest $800 million into Canada’s post-secondary education system through the Canada Social Transfer (CST). The system, however, will have to wait until the 2008-09 fiscal year to receive any of that new money because the federal government lacks the necessary accountability mechanisms to ensure that the provinces will indeed spend the new money in their jurisdictions on post-secondary education. More...
