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How has your view of higher education changed after the COVID-19 pandemic?

As academia emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Waterloo Region Record asked recipients of four honorary doctorates from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University to offer their thoughts on how the pandemic has changed their perspective on the importance of higher education. These are their answers: The question: With the World Health Organization […]

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INTERVIEW: Supporting comprehensive sexuality education in Thailand

Unintended teenage pregnancies are significant among the poorer parts of the north of the country, where accessibility to services and information is harder to reach than elsewhere, and there is anecdotal evidence in some schools showing an increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. Palang Jo, or Youth’s Power, is an NGO based in Phrae in northern

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Innovation, collaboration, education emerged as themes of the NWT climate conference

To tackle our climate crisis, Richard Nerysoo says we can’t be paralyzed by fear. Nerysoo, a former NWT politician, is now an “energy champion” with a federal initiative that supports remote Indigenous communities to reduce their reliance on diesel. He participated in a three-day conference this past week engaging residents, government and industry representatives on

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Designer Liz Caan Gives a Cape Cod Beach House the “English Cottage Treatment”

An English Countryside-Inspired Home on Cape CodCopyright Tim Williams 2022. All rights reserved. “Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” If you’re looking to create a sleek, modern home, Boston-based designer Liz Caan will refer you to another creative, but if it’s layered, colorful, and well-collected living

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Many students will be ‘losing out of a high school education’ if Ontario proceeds with the apprenticeship plan: People for Education

An education advocacy group is speaking out against the province’s proposed plan to allow Grade 11 students to leave high school to join an apprenticeship program full time. Earlier this year, the province announced that it intends to permit students to drop out of their final two years of high school to pursue an apprenticeship

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ONTARIO TRILLIUM FOUNDATION GRANT SUPPORTS RIVER INSTITUTE EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Provided by the River Institute Local MPP Nolan Quinn joined the River Institute’s Education team to participate in an interactive environmental science family workshop and learn more a recent $70,000 Resilient Communities Fund grant received by the River Institute from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). “As many of us know in the region, the River

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Record 13m students sit China’s ‘gaokao’ college entrance exams | Education News

The exams are known for being difficult and many students take additional tuition to help them through. A record number of Chinese students have begun sitting the country’s notoriously difficult college entrance examinations known as “gaokao”, the first since the authorities suddenly lifted zero-COVID rules that forced classes online for months on end. China’s education

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