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Chess affords young people a host of interdisciplinary skills, Canada should invest in teaching them how to play it.
If post-secondary institutions want to continue to play a key role in innovation and entrepreneurship, they must transform for the better.
Internships and work-integrated learning for social sciences and humanities students can be part of how post-secondary institutions increase their capacities to contribute to social innovation.
Teaching approaches should be rooted in learning objectives or students’ experiences, and these considerations aren’t the same as whether course components are online or in-person.
Teaching computer programming to youth can prepare them for the future job market, promote equity in tech professions and develop students’ computational thinking skills.
Students gain control over their own academic records or professional certifications, but blockchain’s immutability means mistakes cannot be erased.
Adding COVID-19 to a list of ‘designated diseases’ will not make vaccination mandatory for school entry. But it may help increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children.
Reaction to criticism of the monarchy shows that universities need to do much more to support racialized faculty and staff.
University histories need to be re-examined with attention to the role of Indigenous Peoples, connections to Residential Schools and universities’ fundraising efforts.
During times of stress and change, people are often advised to practice self-care by looking after themselves, yet what about the benefits of showing kindness to others?
In B.C., residential school principals sat on public school boards, and some Indigenous children even attended public schools. Understanding such links matters for truth and reconciliation.
Libraries play a crucial role in preserving texts, even controversial ones. They are responsible for teaching people how to evaluate the credibility and validity of information.
Children deserve agency in decisions that affect them, but adults are ultimately responsible for making decisions in children’s best interests.
Women’s studies programs should continue to be supported to ensure the fight for women’s rights are not reversed or forgotten.
Some open access journals — those that don’t charge their readers a fee — require that researchers pay to publish with them. Removing author fees helps more researchers to publish their work.
To understand how tuition waivers and associated supports can help former youth in care complete post-secondary education and positively affect their health, evidence-based practices are needed.
By adopting aspects of the expressive arts in the classroom, teachers may help children discover a healing narrative.
Different professors teach differently. If you’re a student with choices in a program, it makes sense to find out what you’re getting.
Given the clear importance of language skills for lifelong outcomes, it is critical to set children up early for language success.
Parents and caregivers can support teens with the transition to high school by taking the time to connect and talk, whenever and however you can.
Academic freedom is increasingly caught up in partisan debates around freedom of speech. But the idea behind it is not only vital but shared across many other professions.
Parents and caregivers are vital partners in education, and together, educators and families can ease back-to-school jitters and help make this an exciting and positive transition for children.
Family routines can provide stability during times of stress. Here are four strategies for building resilience against stress and family challenges to put into place as children head back to school.
Recognizing and accrediting students’ prior learning and competencies is one way universities can tweak business-as-usual approaches.