Arts degrees in Australia are set to cost more than $50,000 from 2025, in a huge blow to students. The student contribution for a range of humanities degrees, such as law and economics, society and culture and communications, will jump to $16,992 annually from 2025. The new prices, resulting from indexation, mean students will pay … Read more
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 18, 2024 12:27 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Quebec Superior Court judge has denied Concordia University’s request to delay a controversial tuition hike for out-of-province and international students. Justice Éric Dufour ruled on July 12 that the harm to the … Read more
NEW YORK — For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories. A professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, and author of numerous critical studies of Canadian fiction, he has thought of Munro as the “jewel” in the crown of … Read more
Ramon Montiel-García, 18, a graduate of KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy in Colorado. Credit: Ramon Montiel-García Ramon Montiel-García, a newly minted high school graduate from KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy in Colorado, was accepted to his first-choice school, Wheaton College in Massachusetts. However, with a sticker price of nearly $80,000 per year, including tuition, fees, and … Read more
Khanmigo doesn’t answer student questions directly, but starts with questions of its own, such as asking whether the student has any ideas about how to find an answer. Then it guides them to a solution, step by step, with hints and encouragement. Notwithstanding Khan’s expansive vision of “amazing” personal tutors for every student on the … Read more
Urbazon | E+ | Getty Images About 1,900 residents in Texas’ Harris County were set to start receiving $500 monthly payments starting this spring. The money — provided through a new 18-month guaranteed income pilot, Uplift Harris, a Harris County Public Health initiative — was aimed at county residents of 10 ZIP codes who are … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The pro-Palestinian encampment at Western University is no more, but the group behind it says it will continue pushing for the university in London, Ont., to divest from Israel-connected funds in light of the ongoing conflict in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. “After sixty days, the Western Divestment Coalition … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Once a year, law professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory usually brings celebrities like Steve Harvey, Ludacris and Rick Ross into her Georgia State University classroom for some entertainment legal talk. But this time, she’s taking her next lesson across the Atlantic Ocean, from Atlanta to the Paris Olympics. Ivory and her law students … Read more
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 2, 2024 7:11 pm Updated July 2, 2024 7:54 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Vancouver labour lawyer says a group of British Columbia teachers has launched a human rights complaint against their union, saying the BC Teachers’ Federation “has engaged … Read more
The use of personal phones to photograph children will be banned from Monday in early childhood education and care centres which have signed up to the new National Model Code and Guidelines. Staff at any childcare providers which adopt the code and guidelines — a strongly recommended measure — must only carry personal devices under … Read more
