Tag: Education
For Brescia students, tears, shock and sadness at ‘end of an era’
It’s the end of an era at Brescia University College. Thursday, officials announced a full integration of the women’s university into Western University by spring, with the facilities to become focused on “underrepresented” students and those who need support upon arrival on campus. Our Beatrice Balleiro asked Brescia students what they thought: Third-year Mary Somerville, 19, […]
Amid demographic mega-shift, women’s-only Brescia College winds down
In the 104 years since nuns founded Brescia University College to guide young women into higher education, the landscape of academia has shifted so dramatically that female students now make up the majority – and the London school is winding down.
Analysis: Why handwriting is back in Ontario classrooms
Once thought old-fashioned by the computer generation, cursive writing will be back in both the Thames Valley District and London District Catholic school boards when about 100,000 students head back to the classroom Wednesday for the start of the new school year.
Baranyai: Parents shouldn’t get veto on what their kids want to be called
New education directives in some provinces – and an apparent test balloon in Ontario – have sent chills down the spines of youth who identify as trans, non-binary or questioning.
Cornies: International student industry needs re-evaluation, but not because of housing
With one eye on wildfires creating havoc in Alberta, B.C. and the Northwest Territories, the cabinet of Justin Trudeau put housing affordability at the top of its agenda at a retreat in Charlottetown this week.