(Version française disponible ici) In April 2021, Ottawa announced with great fanfare an investment of $30 billion over five years to implement a national $10-a-day child...
Sex education in English schools is under scrutiny. A review of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) brought forward by prime minister Rishi Sunak, will lead...
Going to the prom can be an expensive affair for cash-strapped teenagers. Past estimates and surveys put the average cost anywhere from US$600 to $1,000 or...
(Version française disponible ici) The evidence is striking: Quebec is short of doctors. For the past few years, the faculties of medicine at the universities of Montreal,...
One quarter of first-year university students in Canada self-declare that they have a disability. Among those, mental-health-related disabilities are the most common. Each year, more students...
This article is part of our series on big ideas for the Universities Accord. The federal government is calling ideas to “reshape and reimagine higher education,...
Stress is stopping students from enrolling in and staying in college. According to a recent survey of over 12,000 adults in the U.S., 63% of those...
PARIS – Without US$97 billion in extra funding, a range of countries will fail to meet their 2030 national education targets, a new United Nations (UN) report...
The Justice Department on April 14, 2023, charged Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member, with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information...
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: “Negotiation Strategy: Fostering Collaborative Dynamics in Competitive Environments”...