Recently, the Scottish Government issued a consultation on national school uniform guidance that they are planning to issue. The main stated aims of the new guidance will be to reduce costs for families, and to comply with equal obligations. The guidance is to apply to all schools in Scotland, whether local authority schools, independent schools, …
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MONCTON – Inside the walls of the Homarus Centre in Shediac, N.B., there may be a little bit of everything, but the star is the entire centre is lobsters. The goal is to bring the Northumberland Strait ecosystem to life in a new way and in a way that puts education at the …
Texas is now the largest state in the country to tie a majority of state funding for community colleges to student achievement, rather than attendance, as the result of a law enacted this year. House Bill 8, which comes 12 years after Texas first adopted outcomes-based funding for colleges and technical schools, significantly expands on …
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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 …
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Western University’s faculty of education is speeding up and modifying the process to become a certified teacher amid what officials are calling a critical shortage in classrooms provincewide. Published June 12, 2023 • Last updated 3 days ago • 2 minute read (Free Press file photo) Article content Western …
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A month after Premier Scott Moe said more money was on the way for school divisions, Saskatchewan’s education minister announced a $40 million top-up. Dustin Duncan shared the news during a media conference in Saskatoon at Bishop Filevich Ukrainian Bilingual School. “The government of Saskatchewan has funded enrollment increases in the past and I want …
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News Published May 29, 2023 • Last updated 2 days ago • 5 minute read The Calgary Board of Education headquarters on 8th Street and 12th Avenue SW Brendan Miller/Postmedia file Article content Public school officials are planning to hire 710 school-based staff over the next year as the Calgary Board …
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Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Politics PMN News Canadian PMNs Author of the article: The Canadian Press Jeremy Simes Published May 01, 2023 • 2 minute read Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe spoke to the media after the Saskatchewan budget was presented in Regina, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Heywood Yu photo /The Canadian Press Article content …
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New Brunswick’s education minister Bill Hogan is firing back at the New Brunswick Teacher’s Federation over claims that they are being “squeezed” by the government. Hogan used part of his opening speech at the legislature’s estimates committee to address teacher wages, saying the salaries for the province’s teachers measure up favorably against their Atlantic counterparts. …
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