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The article discusses ways in which efforts by Canadian universities to recruit and hire international professors has led to a decrease in the amount of college teaching positions and research opportunities available for Canadian doctoral students. It explores the history of British and American influence on Canadian higher education, chronicles the Canadianization movement of the 1970s through 1990s, and presents comments from professors Louis Groarke and Yves Gingras and Canadian Association of University Teachers director James Turk.

Presents news briefs on higher education as of September 3, 2004. Action taken by the University of Newcastle in New South Wales to fight propaganda campaigns being waged against its minority and international students; Information on a solar-car accident involving killed Andrew Ford, a student of the University of Toronto in Ontario; Dismissal of professor Huang Zongying from Peking University in Beijing, China for extensive plagiarism.

Presents news on higher education as of November 2004. Announcement of the Australian government of its plan to take control of public universities away from the states and put them under federal authority; Release of the new rankings of Canadian colleges by "Maclean's" magazine; Sentence given to a Japanese university club leader who organized gang rapes and participated in the rapes of three young women.

Presents an update on higher education around the world as of April 5, 2002. Resignation of two professors from Oxford University in England due to a philanthropic donation scandal; Rankings of Canadian provincial governments in terms of their commitment to higher education; Educational credit transfer for postsecondary institutions proposed in Canada.