> > To Scott and Histarch, As long as we're discussing hiring decisions, has > the Canadian university policy limiting access to jobs to Canadian citizens > changed in recent years? Fair tendering of positions would be served by > making them truly open, it seems to me. Might increase the pool of good > candidates to serve the universities, departments, students, and > disciplines. > I agree, but it really hasn't changed very much. It made me feel rather strange that I can apply for a job at an American (or British, etc...) institution and be considered equally with others, while the same doesn't hold up here. In practise, and given the nature of academia, departments that want to hire foreign candidates can usually argue that they are simply the best qualified, and this is almost always accepted; I know of no recent challenges on those grounds. Personally, I'd like to see the playing field levelled. Scott