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An Open Letter to BC's Students and Families
As the people who work and teach in BC’s public post-secondary institutions, we experience firsthand, every day, how government policy is failing students and families. It’s time for a change […]
IWD 2017: Women taking the lead for justice
International Women’s Day is an annual opportunity to reflect on how global events are affecting women and to take action in our own communities. For many of us, this is […]
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 […]
