• Sunday 3 May 1998 CEGEP training under fire DOUG SWEET
• Mar 5 '98 High-tech taking a toll Pediatricians join teachers in push to get kids into shape
• December 6, 1997 Eyeing the alternatives Gifted children, Marois said, can be a positive influence on the students around them, and shipping them to special schools robs the neighbourhood schools of natural resources. [should the the bright be, held back, maid dim?] (e-mail for copy)

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• Tuesday 2 March 1999 Rousing Sir George's sleeping dog of '69 Concordia grad documents student uprising It was Montreal's own genuine 1960s smash-the-state hoo-hah. On Feb. 11, 1969, a student protest at Sir George Williams University erupted into violence, and when the smoke cleared - literally - the Hall building's 9th-floor computer centre had been damaged to the tune of $2.5 million (in late-'60s dollars). That led to 97 arrests and, eventually, jail terms and deportations. (saved)
  
  
• Monday 15 February 1999 Don't penalize students The Bouchard government's hostile response to Prime Minister Chretien's cherished millennium scholarship fund is not a surprise. But political opposition is one thing and retaliation quite another.

  Reports suggest that Quebec might penalize any students who accept the federal scholarship money by deducting an equal amount from any provincial financial aid they might be entitled to. (saved)
  
  

• Friday 23 October 1998 Starvation diet After Premier Bouchard's comments this week about Quebec universities, alarm bells should be ringing in every lecture hall in the province. Mr. Bouchard told the National Assembly on Wednesday that if his government is re-elected, it will turn its attention to "rationalizing" the university system in Quebec.
  
  

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  • Saturday 23 January 1999 Business schools failing to compete by DOUG SWEET Caught by competition from the private sector and American schools, most Canadian universities can't hire the commerce and finance professors they need.
    
    
  • Monday 10 August 1998 A culture of mediocrity Pauline Marois, Quebec's education minister, has announced a public consultation in late fall on the future of the province's universities. This is an issue of critical importance, not only for Quebec's intellectual climate but for its long-term economic prospects.
    
    
  • Saturday 25 July 1998 Niche-market MBAs Universities tailor programs to the needs of industry by SARAH RICHARDS (saved)
    
    
  • Thursday 9 July 1998 A step forward The impoverished universities of Quebec have just received their best financial news in years. The province's education minister, Pauline Marois, says she wants to allow universities to charge higher fees to many of their foreign students.
    
    
  • Wednesday, June 24, 1998 Trying to lure Americans is good business for Canadian universities By Jeffrey Simpson OTTAWA -- AT a recent Ottawa high-school commencement, the graduating-class valedictorian scooped up a fistful of academic prizes to add to her athletic ones, bid teachers farewell on behalf of her classmates and prepared to depart for Notre Dame.
    
    
  • Saturday 11 April 1998 - Peggy Curran - McGill's top students star in N.Y. Law At $80,000 U.S., starting salaries in New York are "unmatchable," said Robin Geller, assistant dean of McGill's law faculty, and responsible for admissions, placement and alumni. Montreal firms offer beginners $40,000 to $45,000 a year, while wages at the top Toronto practices start at about $60,000.
    
    
  • Saturday 21 March 1998 McGill ponders alternatives 'Radicals' suggest: spend endowments, sell properties, pension off professors (saved)
    
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  • December 20, 1997 Rhodes scholars best and brightest by Norman Webster
  • December 14 Two university chiefs; two crusaders Bernard Shapiro principal of McGill University and Université de Montréal rector René Simard.
  • December 11 [na] Droves of professors leaving: study Quebec universities have lost 1,000 professors in three years, a 10-per-cent decline that is eroding the quality of teaching,learning and research across the province, a study of 239 university administrators has found.
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    Wednesday 28 January 1998 Henry Aubin - Business should make voice heard ...government is not only slashing its subsidies to the schools but - here's the killer - it also is prohibiting them from raising tuition fees to compensate.
    
    October 4 Student debt needs action
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