Education

SCHOOLS – Spring break 2018 will be one week after talks with teachers fail

June 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

School District No. 73 will have a one-week spring break in 2018. Following several weeks of talks with the Kamloops-Thompson Teachers Association, senior school district [Continue]

SCHOOLS – 15 schools, 1,000 students begin graduation-ceremony season

May 26, 2017 // 2 Comments

It will be a busy June for School District 73 (Kamloops-Thompson) as nearly 1,000 students from 15 schools and programs get set to end their secondary school careers and move [Continue]

EDUCATION – In-class activism replacing real education

May 19, 2017 // 2 Comments

By MADDIE di MUCCIO ISSUES SUCH as Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, multiculturalism, feminism, indigenous culture, identity politics and environmental stewardship have [Continue]

LETTER – TRU’s full professors are chronically under-paid in comparison

May 4, 2017 // 5 Comments

Higher education doesn’t usually get the attention it deserves during provincial election campaigns. That’s unfortunate, because since Kamloops received a free-standing [Continue]

EDUCATION – Slowing the corporatization of our universities

April 24, 2017 // 2 Comments

By DAVID GOA Director Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life University of Alberta DURING A CONFERENCE several years ago, I listened with care as [Continue]

EDUCATION – Why letter grades matter so much in the education system

April 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

By ROBERT PRICE APRIL’S a wet month. Showers soak the soil, stirring dull roots, and exams dampen college campuses. For faculty, spring won’t start until every essay [Continue]