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BC Budget 2017
It’s an election year, and that means a budget full of goodies to woo the voters to cast their May 9 ballots for this government in the hopes of being […]
BC budget fails students and families
VICTORIA— BC Budget 2017 is big on talk of putting money back in people’s pockets, but when it comes to BC students and their families, it’s short on action, say […]
Post-Secondary Profiles
As a grad student and sessional instructor through the 1980s, I saw first-hand how students and sessional instructors were exploited. Later, as a History Instructor at CNC, I saw college […]
VDLC Labour Education – Charter Rights Workshop
Join instructors Leo McGrady and Jamie Baugh from McGrady & Company on February 4 for a Charter Rights in the Workplace workshop, offered by the Vancouver & District Labour Council. […]
New Year, New Website, New…Government?
If you’re like me, you probably saw a lot of social media posts, commentary, and memes floating around the internet talking about how terrible a year 2016 was. They don’t […]
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Twenty-seven years ago, on December 6, 1989, fourteen women were murdered at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. When a man with a gun entered the engineering school, he separated the women […]
Literacy Funding Inadequate in Addressing Basic Education Needs
A recent BC Liberal announcement allocating funding for community adult literacy programs shortchanges the 25,000 Adult Basic Education students at the province’s public post-secondary institutions, say the Federation of Post-Secondary […]
Standing Committee on Finance Calls for Increased Post-Secondary Funding
Once again, the report of the BC Legislature’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services includes several of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators’ recommendations to the committee. For the […]
Join the Fight for Fairness
Today we start another week of activities marking Fair Employment Week, our annual effort to raise awareness of the plight of the precariously-employed workers in academia. Year after year, we […]
B.C. Students Suffer as Tuition and Service Fees Continue to Spiral Upwards
The provincial government’s systematic reduction in funding over the past 15 years means an increasing number of young British Columbians are unable to access or afford the post-secondary education they […]
