Tag: Education
Grade 12s set to enter university with no exam experience due to pandemic
When London-area Grade 12 students head to university this fall, all of them will have one thing in common.
Ontario government opening $6M trades training centre in Strathroy
STRATROY – Ontario will open a $6-million training centre in Strathroy to make it easier for the region’s rural students to enter skilled trades. The centre, which the province said will have state-of-the-art equipment, will offer classes and training to apprentices and secondary and elementary school students in careers such as mechanic millwright, welding and […]
Rural-urban rift on Thames Valley school board deepens as split pondered
A tri-county school board distinct from the Thames Valley District board or even no school board at all were ideas being bounced around this week in reaction to the disbanding of a rural education task force.
Parents seek to raise profile of provincial schools for deaf and blind children
They’re the only schools of their kind in Ontario, yet some families with deaf or blind children aren’t even aware of them. That’s just one of the issues parents, students and teachers of provincially operated schools for deaf and blind children are raising at a series of rallies planned in Southwestern Ontario and beyond, says […]
Provincial recovery plan for students lacks ‘long-term vision’: education advocates
With months to go until the school year ends, critics say Ontario’s plan to tackle learning gaps after two years of COVID-19 doesn’t go far enough and needs a long-term vision.