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Education linked to better employment prospects upon release from prison

Education linked to better employment prospects upon release from prison

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Better job prospects. Higher wages. A greater chance of staying out of jail. Those are the key outcomes that we discovered for incarcerated people who get an education while serving their time. Our findings were published in the American Journal of Criminal Justice. They are based on an analysis of research studies on the effects […]

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Leveraging Education in Emergencies for Climate Action – No time to lose: Commit to resilience and learning now – World

Leveraging Education in Emergencies for Climate Action – No time to lose: Commit to resilience and learning now – World

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Attachments Geneva, 20 November 2023 – The climate crisis is accelerating. The 1.5C limit, acknowledged as the point beyond which climate change is almost certainly irreversible, has nearly been reached. Worldwide, warming temperatures, extreme weather and climate-induced disasters are becoming more severe. At the same time, growing numbers of children and youth are being affected

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COLUMN: Bird feeders serve up unmatched outdoor education

COLUMN: Bird feeders serve up unmatched outdoor education

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‘No book, TV show or movie can come close’ to watching flurry of activity at feeder station, says outdoors columnist The sassy call of the lone chickadee flitting above my head did a better job of announcing the feeder was open than any ‘bells and whistles’ I may have thought of. Each November, the weather

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Beware These ‘Truisms’ About Higher Education

Beware These ‘Truisms’ About Higher Education

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College students in a lecture room Getty Images/iStockphoto Despite the flame-throwing heat in today’s public discourse, it’s actually possible to find agreement—to weigh two conflicting ideas at once. That, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, is the test of a first-rate intelligence. Consider three common truisms about higher education: – College costs are skyrocketing. –

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Indian student speaks to WION, reveals shocking state of Canada’s education system, housing and health infra

Indian student speaks to WION, reveals shocking state of Canada’s education system, housing and health infra

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Leaving her education mid-way, this year before paying her second-year tuition fee, Vrinda Kathore, came back to India in the month of September. She was pursuing a post-graduate diploma in health care management from Canada.  “I landed there in April 2022, I was studying at Cape Breton University and around that time the influx of

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