Alberta’s premier wants the advanced education minister to pave the way for private career colleges to deliver accredited diploma and degree programs. The proposal raises concern from advocacy groups that for-profit career colleges in the province could eventually receive public money after the government slashed funding to public universities, colleges…
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High transportation costs, inflation prompts Waterloo region school board to send letters to education minister
Trustees with the Waterloo Region District School Board have passed the budget for the 2023-24 school year. But in doing so, they were “forced to make some very difficult decisions regarding staffing and resources,” chairperson Joanne Weston wrote in a letter to Ontario’s Minister of Education Stephen Lecce. The board’s…
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Youth program workers know the value of education
Christina Kioke has fallen in love with education and wants to pass that love on. It’s what started her back to school at the age of 32 to take the Northern College social services worker program, and it led to her nomination for a Premier’s Award for new graduates. “I…
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Northern Ireland schools teach pupils that homosexuality is wrong
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission’s report found that relationships and sexuality education in Northern Ireland schools does not meet human rights standards. (Getty Images) A report has been ruled there is a “compelling” case for a reform of relationships and sexuality education (RSE) after it was found that some…
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Quebec’s education minister criticized for comments about teachers’ salaries
Québec – Education Minister Bernard Drainville is dismissive of teachers when he insinuates that they are deserving less of a significant pay raise than MNAs, according to Liberal MNA Marwah Rizqy. In an interview with Le Devoir on Monday, Drainville was asked why Quebec teachers don’t deserve to be among…
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Higgs’s remarks on LGBTQ policy called ‘deplorable’ by education council members
Members of the Anglophone East district education council have waded into a debate over New Brunswick’s policy on LGBTQ students in schools, with one member calling Premier Blaine Higgs’s comments on the issue “deplorable.” “I know it’s recent news, it just came out, but the premier’s comments regarding Policy 713…
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Quebec education minister skewered for suggesting teachers don’t deserve the same pay hike as MNAs
Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville is facing fierce criticism for comments he made about the relative worth of teachers’ work in a video interview Monday with the editorial team at Le Devoir. Political columnist Michel David asked Drainville about negotiations with the province’s teachers, who have been offered a nine…
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Serbia’s education minister resigned in the wake of deadly mass shootings, including at primary school
Serbia’s education minister submitted his resignation Sunday following two mass shootings, one of them at a primary school, that left 17 people dead, while the European country’s government urged citizens to turn in all unregistered weapons or run the risk of a prison sentence. Education Minister Branko Ruzic is the…
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EpicQuest Education Announces Agreement between Davis College and Chongqing Technology and Business Institute for Intake of At Least 46 Students in September 2023
Enrollment Expected to Reach at Least 138 Students in 2025 Reinforcing the Internationalization of EEIQ’s Mission MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — EpicQuest Education Group International Limited (NASDAQ: EEIQ), (“EpicQuest Education”, “EEIQ” or the “Company”), a provider of comprehensive education solutions for domestic and international students seeking college and…
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The eye-popping new school designed by its pupils – Positive News
Classrooms are arranged around an indoor rainforest. Porthole windows which look like googly eyes peering out from lumpy, butter-colored walls. Zigzagging roofs and soaring archways. If this mind-bending vision sounds like something that might have been dreamed up by school pupils, that’s because it was – and now those dreams…