Tag: Education
Shahatto and Choudhary: Real answer to anti-Muslim hate is education
With three decades in education between us, we thought we’d seen and done it all in this field. That changed when tragedy struck our community June 6, 2021, when four members of the Afzaal family of London were killed in what police allege was a hate-motivated attack.
Letters to the Editor: May 17, 2022
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Winging it: Unique program launches students on aviation career path
For one London-area high schooler, being enrolled in an aviation school lets her not only learn about the intricacies of flight, but also hang around others who share the same passion.
‘It’s Apple’: London high school student lands dream co-op gig
‘I mean, it’s Apple. It’s an opportunity that is out of this world’
COLUMN: London-area teacher shortage couldn’t come at a worse time
We urgently need to increase the number of teachers we are training in the province, Western University education professor Donna Kotsopoulos writes:
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.