Education

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]

McQUARRIE – Suppose we hired 200 doctors and paid students’ tuition?

April 18, 2017 // 2 Comments

SUPPOSE, just for a moment, that B.C. decided to hire and pay a salary to doctors willing to locate to communities outside of the Lower Mainland. For sake of argument, [Continue]

EDUCATION – TRU Students’ Union to press for open textbooks program

April 11, 2017 // 2 Comments

The TRU Students’ Union will press its case for an open textbook grants program when it appears before the university’s academic planning and priorities committee [Continue]

EDUCATION – When a degree isn’t enough to get you a job

April 4, 2017 // 3 Comments

By ROSLYN KUNIN Troy Media Career prospects become so discouraging for many educated young people that the British weekly magazine The Economist writes about young people who [Continue]

EDUCATION – Independent schools offer choice and quality, not elitism

March 31, 2017 // 1 Comment

By JASON CLEMENS and SASHA PARVANI The Fraser Institute DEBATE ABOUT how best to provide education for British Columbia’s children should be front and centre as the [Continue]

CHIDIAC – Investing in children to stop the scourge of extremism

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS advocate Marian Wright Edelman said, “The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; the question is whether we can afford not [Continue]