Humanities News

Students protest tuition increases around the world

Students are protesting tuition fees around the world. The Guardian reports on the third day of tuition fee hike protests in the UK, Student protesters ignore winter freeze with mass rallies against tuition fees. In Italy students protested the proposed education reforms in more than one city, and in California The New York Times reports […]

Raising a glass to the past

The University of Glasgow reports about a collaboration between a business keen to restore an old distillery and Professor John Corbett, a humanist (a historical linguist). See University of Glasgow: Raising a glass to the past. They were connected through Interface, which is “a matchmaking service connecting businesses quickly and easily to world class expertise, […]

Chad Gaffield on People-Centred Innovation

Chad Gaffield, the President of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, gave a talk yesterday at the University of Alberta on how innovation involves people. This talk was part of a at a Festival of Ideas event celebrating Social Science and Humanities research that included a panel on “Does the Internet Lie?”. […]

Rising Tuition

Rising Tuition costs are one of the issues facing youth and parents as they choose universities. The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has an article titled Tuition fees on the rise … again which covers the Canadian scene. Associated with the article is an interactive panel Canada’s climbing tuition fees. The article, which is based on […]

Edmonton Journal: Tuition hikes are regressive, unfair

The Edmonton Journal published an opinion piece by David Robinson titled, Tuition hikes are regressive, unfair (November 13th, 2010.) Robinson, who is associated with the Canadian Association of University Teachers, tackles the view that tuition fees have no effect on enrollment. He concludes with, What we do know in Canada is that tuition fee levels […]