Jennifer Timmins says she often comes home from work with bruises, cuts or scratches that are hard to explain to her three children.
Timmins works as an educational assistant (EA) at a public school in inner-city Hamilton, a job that goes beyond helping students with their work. She says she often finds herself breaking up fights and managing students with aggressive behaviour, subjecting herself to violence that nearly any other worker would find unconscionable – and she wants it to stop.
“Every day I go in thinking, ‘What is my student going to do today? Are they going to give…
The New Brunswick Department of Education came out with eight recommendations Wednesday for the Anglophone education system’s upcoming school year.
“One of the things we’re going to do is hire teachers under contract,” said N.B. Education Minister, Bill Hogan.
“So that we know in certain areas and districts will help identify those schools that teacher X will be available on any given day to replace the first teacher that’s absent,” Hogan said.
“If there’s no teacher that’s absent then we’ll have that teacher available to work with individual students,” he said.
Some of those recommendations…
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, or grant-aided schools.
For a consultation document, it already has some very clear ideas about what the proposed guidance will, and will not contain.
So, we know that the guidance will not:
require the adoption of specific school uniform items;
…
OTTAWA, Ontario, July 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented disruptor to in-person education throughout the world and Canada was no exception. With little to no notice at all, teachers across the country found themselves teaching their students through computer screens and apps instead of in their classrooms. Switching to virtual learning created many challenges, such as securing sufficient devices and high-speed internet access for teachers and students, but the damaging legacy of the sudden change continues.
Emergency remote virtual learning became part of the daily routine of secondary, elementary and even kindergarten students. But…
Bear Grylls has accused schools of failing to give children “an edge in life”, arguing that “so much of education” is boring.
The Chief Scout and TV survival expert, who is a father of three, said traditional education was “falling short”.
“It’s never been a tougher time for young people than right now,” said the old Etonian, 48, who is famous for his Born Survivor and other adventure series.
“There’s more anxiety, more pressure, more uncertainty than ever before. The world is ever faster, ever more competitive.
“So much education, even life skills education, is often so boring. And I…
Education funding has been a highly debated topic in Saskatchewan, and one school division took the time to fact-check the province’s claims, addressing their repeated message of “record funding.”
Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools (GSCS) sent a message to parents and caregivers saying they’ve been reviewing the provincial funding since it was announced in March.
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“Our initial optimism faded when faced with the reality that school divisions in Saskatchewan—and therefore the students and families we serve—would not benefit from the province’s good financial fortune,” read the letter.
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More students will have access to in-demand programs as 3,000 more technology-relevant spaces become available in the public post-secondary education system.
Spaces will cover a range of areas, including cybersecurity, software engineering, data science, life sciences, creative tech, clean tech and agritech.
The new student spaces are possible through a provincial three-year investment of $74.7 million. The spaces and supporting investment are included in the StrongerBC: Future Ready Action Plan, which is working to accelerate talent development and skills training to address workforce challenges across all sectors and throughout BC
“We’re facing an enormous challenge – our economy is changing,…
Ontario will eliminate the post-secondary education requirement to become a police officer, expand enrollment for its basic training program and ax tuition fees at the Ontario Police College, the premier said Tuesday.
The moves are designed to get more police officers into communities, Doug Ford said.
“We need reinforcements, we need more police officers on our streets,” Ford said at the Toronto Police College.
There’s been a rise in auto thefts, assaults, break-and-enters and random acts of violence in Ontario over the past year, Ford said.
The province will add 140 new recruits at the Ontario Police College in 2023…