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Ontario education unions work to block teachers’ struggle despite massive strike votes

Ontario education unions work to block teachers’ struggle despite massive strike votes

The members of two of the four Ontario teacher unions that represent some 200,000 educators in Canada’s most populace province voted overwhelmingly to strike last month. As has been the case throughout the 14 months since teachers’ contracts expired at the end of August 2022, the principal concern of the union bureaucracies following the votes […]

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TTAND awarded 2023 Educational Excellence Award by The Travel Institute

TTAND awarded 2023 Educational Excellence Award by The Travel Institute

The Travel Agent Next Door (TTAND) is the recipient of The Travel Institute’s 2023 Educational Excellence Award for the travel industry. Established in 2022, the award recognizes organizations and individuals that demonstrate a significant, ongoing commitment to quality education for travel advisors and make a substantial, meaningful investment to ensure delivery of education to the ultimate

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How EduFi Hopes To Help Pakistani Students Extend Their Education

How EduFi Hopes To Help Pakistani Students Extend Their Education

EduFi founder and CEO Aleena Nadeem EduFi Pakistan has a problem: it is struggling to keep its young people in education, largely because so many families cannot manage the upfront costs of college fees. Enter fintech startup EduFi, which is today announcing the successful completion of a $6.1 million fundraising round. It hopes its innovative

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As Holocaust education becomes compulsory in some provinces, advocates call for wider adoption

As Holocaust education becomes compulsory in some provinces, advocates call for wider adoption

Marilyn Sinclair says she’s feeling “pretty great” about Ontario’s new requirement that sixth-graders learn about the Holocaust. Sinclair, founder of Holocaust education organization Liberation 75, is responding to more than 8,000 requests for copies of a book from Grade 6 teachers across the province. Told from a child’s perspective, the book recounts the real-life story of the St. Louis, a ship

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New Publication: Transforming the landscape of obesity education – The Canadian obesity education competencies

New Publication: Transforming the landscape of obesity education – The Canadian obesity education competencies

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Holocaust educators applaud B.C. and Ontario for mandatory education in high schools

Holocaust educators applaud B.C. and Ontario for mandatory education in high schools

One of Claude Romney’s earliest memories from when she was a young girl in France is of her father being arrested by German soldiers and a French police officer. “When my father was arrested, the Germans were not arresting women and children yet,” Romney said in an interview. “But after my father was deported, they

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