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Joan Jewison has mixed feelings about her upcoming retirement. While it’s a huge milestone, the educational assistant says after more than four decades of working with students, it will also be sad to say goodbye. “It’s been 41 years of seeing these kids every day and being able to interact with …
Read More »Hundreds of students ejected from N.S. immigration fast track after province abruptly changes rules
The future of hundreds of foreign student workers in Nova Scotia is unclear as the province abruptly changed the rules for a fast-track program to permanent residency in Canada. “I don’t know what to feel … I’m just scared right now. I’m frustrated, angry. Everything is like, mixed feelings,” said …
Read More »‘It changed my life’: How an Ontario university tuition levy helps students affected by war become grads
Alik Sarian uprooted her life twice for her university education. On Tuesday, she will be one of hundreds of students receiving a bachelor of science degree at Wilfrid Laurier University during convocation ceremonies, and says she has her classmates to thank. Sarian is originally from Aleppo, Syria. In 2016, she moved with …
Read More »Winnipeg middle-school students find body during community cleanup exercise
A group of middle-school students in Winnipeg came across a dead body in a field during a class exercise on Friday. Pembina Trails School Division superintendent Ted Fransen said students involved in a community cleanup day at École South Pointe School were doing service education when they came across the body in a …
Read More »Canadian medical students call for free, universal access to contraception
Medical students across Canada are calling on the federal government to make contraception free and universally available to all. In Canada, it’s up to provincial governments to determine what medical needs are covered by insurance, including contraception. But coverage varies from province to province, and contraception is often not included in …
Read More »Schoolytics is a dashboard that keeps teachers, students, and parents on the same page – TechCrunch
When I was in school — which, judging by how my spine feels most mornings, was fourteen thousand years ago — keeping track of how you were doing on your homework felt, itself, like homework. Parents, meanwhile, were generally in the dark about your overall progress until report cards came …
Read More »Medical students studying in China University seeks physical training in India, Delhi HC issues notice, Health News, ET HealthWorld
The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre and National Medical Council (NMC) on a plea moved by students seeking directions to NMC to allow physical training in India of Indian students studying medicine in China, who are stuck in their home country India, due to COVID-19 …
Read More »Mos, a challenger bank for students, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global at a $400M valuation, up from $50M in May 2020 (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Mos, a challenger bank for students, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global at a $400M valuation, up from $50M in May 2020 — ‘I wish I had to only convince 1,000 nerds, but we need to convince 20 million students.’ — Human rights …
Read More »29 Students Of West Bengal School Test Positive For Covid-19
New Delhi: At least 29 students of a residential school in West Bengal’s Nadia district have tested positive for Covid-19. According to sources, the affected students are from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kalyani, and belong to Class 9 and Class 10. Thirteen boys and 16 girls tested Covid positive. School officials …
Read More »Despite NEET result delay, many TN students still fly abroad to study medicine, Health News, ET HealthWorld
CHENNAI: The delay in releasing National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) results and Covid-19 pandemic have limited the number of choices for students opting to study medicine in foreign universities, but many from Tamil Nadu have made light of the problems including travel restrictions and are still flying out to study medicine. …
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