Education

EDUCATION – Deeper deficits spurred by increases in public school spending

February 26, 2017 // 1 Comment

By CHARLES LAMMAM and HUGH MacINTYRE The Fraser Institute With governments across Canada preparing to release their budgets, Canadians can expect headlines announcing new [Continue]

EDUCATION – An education system’s slow but steady journey to inclusion

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

IN 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada for the crimes committed against them in the residential school system. It’s sometimes [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Nine of 10 elementary schools showing improvement were public, according to annual ranking

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Independent elementary schools in B.C. continue to perform well above average but this year more than 90 per cent of all elementary schools in the province that showed [Continue]

Plan to increase costs for Basic Ed, ESL programs ‘bad news’

May 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ TRU — A plan to increase student costs for Adult Basic Education and English As a Second Language programs is “bad news” and would put future enrolment [Continue]

TRU ‘extremely sorry’ for email

April 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ TRU — Thompson Rivers University has issued a retraction and apology to more than 400 people for an erroneous communication advising them they had been accepted into [Continue]

TRU to get student award money if pipeline project approved

April 7, 2015 // 3 Comments

TRU will get $500,000 over 20 years from Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project if it’s approved by the National Energy Board. A memorandum of [Continue]