English Documents

The majority of documents reproduced on the FQPPU website are available in French only. However, our Newsletter and the Executive Committee Priorities, as well as some press releases and research files, have been translated.

The documents listed here are all available in English.

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Speech is golden, silence cannot be bought: The Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d’université (FQPPU) strongly protests the punitive lawsuits filed by gold-mining corporations against the publisher Écosociété.

Montréal, June 17, 2008 - The FQPPU is outraged by the fact that two major Canadian gold-mining corporations have filed punitive lawsuits against the book publisher Ecosociété over its recent publication of Noir Canada : Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique. The authors, Alain Denault, Delphine Abadie and William Sacher, fully documented their work using recognized and credible public resources, accessible to anyone sufficiently interested to consult them....

To join the support campaign for Écosociété

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A review of the report on Quebec university governance : Who « owns » the university ? Certainly not a new managerial oligarchy

Pierre Hébert and Cécile Sabourin for the Executive Committee of the Fédération québécoisedes professeures et professeurs d’université (FQPPU)

In December 2006, the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations set up a working group with a mandate to propose principles of healthy governance for the university sector. This group submitted its report in September 2007. Briefly, it deals with the nature of the board of governors and the method of nominating the chief administrator – the rector, usually – of the university. In the current context of a public debate urbi et orbi on governance and the Minister of Finance’s Bill unveiled in Le Devoir on Thursday, October 11, the importance of such a report is obvious. 

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Executive Commitee priorities for action in 2007-2008

As the Executive Committee starts with a fresh mandate, we take this occasion to announce our priorities for 2007-2008 and also to review briefly our activities during the last year. The review precedes our action plan for 2007-2008.  

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 Psychological harassment

An awareness and action guide - Psychogical harassment - February 2006

• color version (pdf)
• black and white version (pdf)

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Education at a Glance 2007

Across OECD countries, governments are seeking policies to make education more effective while searching for additional resources to meet the increasing demand for education.

The 2007 edition of Education at a Glance enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance. It provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems. The indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it and how education systems operate and at the results achieved. The latter includes indicators on a wide range of outcomes, from comparisons of student’s performance in key subject areas to the impact of education on earnings and on adults’ chances of employment.   

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Almanac of Post-Secondary Education 2007

The CAUT Almanac of Post-Secondary Education 2007 is the sixth edition of an annual publication bringing together a wealth of information about Canada's universities and colleges in an accessible format for students, academic staff, journalists and the public.

CAUT Website to download document by sections
 

 

 

 

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Teachers taking position

Manufacturing a climate of fear - Open letter to the residents of the Montebello area

By Anna Kruzynski, Professor of community and public affairs, Concordia University and member of la Pointe libertaire

We met last Sunday [August 19th]. I was part of the popular education brigades that were organized by the Peoples’ Global Action of Montreal in an effort to explain to folks living in the Montebello area the reasons behind our position against the Partnership for Security and Prosperity (PSP), a “dialogue” that has been going on between Canadian, USA and Mexican leaders since 2005.  

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Colloquium

FQPPU Colloquium - November 6-7, 2008 - Must we rebuild the Quebec universitiy?

From Dream to Reality: A colloquium on doctoral studies and starting the professorial caree

Marsh 2007 - A Highly Successful FQPPU colloquium on doctoral studies and starting the professorial career

From all over Quebec recently hired faculty, along with more experienced colleagues, students about to complete their doctorates, sessional lecturers and a few administrators, welcomed and discussed with a great deal of interest and enthusiasm the themes addressed by the 14 guest speakers at the colloquium on March 22 and 23, 2007.

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Press Releases

FQPPU supports strikers at Bishop's University