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Education
fromCornell Chronicle
18 hours ago

Creative Teaching Awards celebrate experiential learning, community connections | Cornell Chronicle

Creative Teaching Awards recognize innovative teaching strategies through local, hands-on learning experiences beyond traditional classroom settings.
#ontario-education
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 day ago

Ontario education minister announcing school system changes Monday | CBC News

Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra will announce changes to the school system amid financial oversight and criticism of school board spending.
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago
Canada news

School board takeovers distraction from chronic underfunding of Ontario schools, say teacher and student reps | CBC News

Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 day ago

Ontario education minister announcing school system changes Monday | CBC News

Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra will announce changes to the school system amid financial oversight and criticism of school board spending.
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago
Canada news

School board takeovers distraction from chronic underfunding of Ontario schools, say teacher and student reps | CBC News

Agriculture
fromRealagriculture
1 week ago

Preserving farmland, strengthening food security: Why the Greenbelt matters

Ontario's agriculture sector must diversify and reduce reliance on U.S. trade to enhance self-reliance and capitalize on local production opportunities.
#climate-change
fromCornell Chronicle
2 months ago
Higher education

Faculty event to highlight how teaching about climate change can move beyond discourse and despair | Cornell Chronicle

fromCornell Chronicle
2 months ago
Higher education

Faculty event to highlight how teaching about climate change can move beyond discourse and despair | Cornell Chronicle

fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 week ago

After a disappointing college experience, I was determined to make postgrad life better. Now I'm thriving.

Social anxiety and depression had other plans, leaving me in an ugly cycle of self-isolation and rumination. Terrified of rejection, I'd meet someone interesting during one of my English lectures and invite them out for frozen yogurt in my head.
Higher education
fromState of the Planet
2 weeks ago

From Classrooms to Climate Impact: Two Careers Flourish in Singapore

"Singapore is in a very unique position because they face a lot of land constraints, so there are few ways for them to generate their own renewable energy. Singapore is pushing for integrated energy systems throughout ASEAN, so that renewable energy produced in other countries can be brought back to Singapore. There's a very distinct, coordinated effort for countries to come together to work on climate change and energy security in a way that I haven't really seen."
Environment
fromwww.cbc.ca
4 days ago

Ford government to cut length of teachers' college, revamp training requirements | CBC News

The government says it will also establish a minimum practicum length as a way to emphasize real, in-class experience.
Canada news
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
4 days ago

Community concerned about rise in auto thefts at GO station parking lots in Scarborough | CBC News

Auto thefts at GO station parking lots in Scarborough have increased, prompting calls for improved security measures from the local community.
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 weeks ago

Ontario mandated e-learning to expand course options. Some worry it's being used to boost marks | CBC News

The most popular courses taken online were those required to graduate or electives typically used for university applications, raising concerns about the e-learning system.
Online learning
Environment
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 weeks ago

Why environmental advocates are speaking out against a planned development in northeast Pickering | CBC News

Environmental advocates oppose a planned development in northeast Pickering due to concerns about flood risk, water quality, and endangered species.
Education
fromwww.fb101.com
2 weeks ago

Kitchen Brigades: Empowering Toronto Youth Through Culinary Arts

La Tablee des Chefs and the Toronto District School Board launched the Kitchen Brigades program to teach culinary skills to high school students.
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 week ago

Canadian universities offering exam deferrals, accommodations to students impacted by war in Middle East | CBC News

The University of Victoria said it has reached out directly to students who have links to Iran to offer support on a case-by-case basis, including special bursary funding and lifting holds on registration related to overdue tuition.
Canada news
fromState of the Planet
3 weeks ago

Centering Community in Climate Resilience and Disaster Preparedness

I watched my mom and the attitude she takes to life. She always believes there is a 'better' coming; even if you can't see it now, it is coming soon.
Online Community Development
Toronto startup
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 weeks ago

New Toronto program ensures kids are fed nutritious meals at summer camp | CBC News

Toronto expands CampTO nutrition and early sign-up programs to provide healthy meals to 115,000 children and increase equitable camp access for low-income families.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
4 weeks ago

New College Campus Expansion Plan Stalls

If passed, the original bill would have given New College much-needed dorms and other facilities on the nearby USF Sarasota-Manatee campus. NCF is seeking to grow its enrollment amid a multiyear overhaul driven by Gov. Ron DeSantis and led by NCF president Richard Corcoran, a former Republican lawmaker tasked with leading a conservative rebrand of the institution.
SF politics
Education
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 weeks ago

Don't 'engage in divisive or contentious issues of any kind,' says provincial memo on graduation ceremonies | CBC News

Ontario's education minister mandates that graduation ceremonies avoid political views to protect student well-being.
Agriculture
fromRealagriculture
3 weeks ago

Policy Brief: Agriculture R&D through a critical infrastructure lens

Canada's public agricultural research infrastructure has declined significantly, with reduced AAFC funding shifting away from essential research site operations and maintenance.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 week ago

Northeast Pickering development decision delayed for further consultations with First Nations | CBC News

Pickering council deferred a decision on developing 1,600 hectares of land for more consultation with First Nations groups.
Women in technology
fromRealagriculture
1 month ago

Changing conversations highlight evolving role of women in agriculture

The Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference has evolved to address mental health, resiliency, and workplace challenges, reflecting decades of progress in recognizing women's contributions to agriculture.
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 week ago

Minister mum on mandatory review of Greenbelt, which is a year overdue | CBC News

The Greenbelt, an over 800,000-hectare ecologically sensitive zone around the Greater Golden Horseshoe, was created in 2005. It provides environmental protection and specifies where development should not occur.
Canada news
fromGarden Therapy
1 month ago

5 Gentle Ways to Start Talking to People Again - Garden Therapy

Social anxiety, more often than not, is about inexperience. Most of us only go out for dinner or have an event once a week, and that becomes our entire social outlet. So when we do interact with someone new, it feels high-stakes. You feel pressured to say the perfect thing.
Relationships
#climate-education
fromState of the Planet
1 month ago
Education

Bringing Climate Research to New York City's Classrooms

Over 500 NYC educators gathered at Columbia University's Teachers College for the third annual NYC Mid-Winter Climate Institute to integrate climate education into K-12 classrooms and address gaps in climate curriculum implementation.
fromState of the Planet
1 month ago
Higher education

Meet the Inaugural Dean's Graduate Scholars at Columbia Climate School

Columbia Climate School's 2025 M.S. in Climate cohort comprises 58 students from 17 countries with diverse academic backgrounds, supported by inaugural Dean's Graduate Scholarships recognizing excellence and advancing climate leadership.
Education
fromState of the Planet
1 month ago

Bringing Climate Research to New York City's Classrooms

Over 500 NYC educators gathered at Columbia University's Teachers College for the third annual NYC Mid-Winter Climate Institute to integrate climate education into K-12 classrooms and address gaps in climate curriculum implementation.
Higher education
fromState of the Planet
1 month ago

Meet the Inaugural Dean's Graduate Scholars at Columbia Climate School

Columbia Climate School's 2025 M.S. in Climate cohort comprises 58 students from 17 countries with diverse academic backgrounds, supported by inaugural Dean's Graduate Scholarships recognizing excellence and advancing climate leadership.
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Hariri Pontarini Architects and Snhetta to Design New Ontario Science Centre in Toronto

The architectural proposal organizes new construction and heritage structures into a cohesive campus, establishing visual and physical connections between the city and Lake Ontario. By consolidating the five existing Pods, the Cinesphere, and the new building into a unified spatial framework, the design reinforces the waterfront's civic identity while reinterpreting Ontario Place's original ambition as a landscape for public learning, innovation, and recreation.
Toronto
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 weeks ago

Toronto youth are struggling to find work. Here's why | CBC News

Youth unemployment has surged, with young job seekers facing increased competition and insecurity in finding stable employment.
Toronto startup
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

How Toronto hopes to revolutionize its school food program | CBC News

Toronto won a Bloomberg Philanthropies innovation challenge, securing $1.4 million to expand its school food program toward universal free meals by 2030 while supporting local farmers and creating community jobs.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Why Did ICE Take a Columbia Student?

This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'
US politics
Higher education
fromCornell Chronicle
1 month ago

Talk to explore the future of higher education | Cornell Chronicle

American higher education faces critical challenges including student debt, admissions opacity, campus polarization, declining trust, and AI disruption, requiring institutional reimagining.
Artificial intelligence
fromState of the Planet
1 month ago

How Can AI Address Climate Justice When Women's Voices Are Silenced?

AI in environmental decision-making risks reinforcing inequities unless women's voices, labor, and lived realities are embedded in its foundations from the start.
fromThe Walrus
2 months ago

How Universities Are Shutting Out Disabled Students and Staff | The Walrus

N AOMI HAD ALWAYS hated school, so much so that she cried for hours when school breaks ended. She hadn't always considered herself disabled, though. Sure, she'd felt lucky to have discovered her autism and learning disabilities relatively early-and to have started getting accommodations in junior high-given that most autistic women aren't diagnosed until adulthood, if at all. But until her second semester of university, Naomi hadn't realized how much autism impacted her life. Then, just before semester's end, COVID-19 crashed in.
Mental health
fromHer Campus
2 months ago

The Space Between Then and Now: Modern Storytelling

Storytelling is shaped by the way we engage with it. In the past, narratives unfolded slowly, giving the audience time to reflect and analyze at their own pace. Classic games, podcasts, and films provided the audience with time to settle into the narrative, and for emotions to build up gradually. These slower forms of media created room for reflection and engagement, allowing audiences to process narratives thoughtfully.
Digital life
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts

The School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver takes a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to studies in the arts, offering an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, an MA in Contemporary Arts, and a PhD in Contemporary Arts. The internationally-recognized artists and scholars that make up our faculty work at the generative fringes of Dance, Film, Music & Sound, Theatre & Performance, Performance Production & Design, and Visual Art, with a focus on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary practices.
Arts
Remodel
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Ventura Terra University Residence - University of Lisbon / CVDB arquitectos

Ventura Terra University Residence design fits required building density and lot and height limits while adding a pedestrian path linking the higher north street and lower south street.
Toronto
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Professors are embracing AI: Here's what that looks like in the classroom | CBC News

University educators integrate generative AI into courses, set clear rules, and teach responsible, critically informed student use while redesigning assessments and learning objectives.
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Ontario to consolidate 36 conservation authorities into 9 | CBC News

Ontario will consolidate its 36 conservation authorities into nine across the province. Environment Minister Todd McCarthy says there will be no job losses as a result. He says the province listened to feedback after several town halls and 14,000 comments on its plan, which initially proposed having seven conservation authorities.
Canada news
fromRealagriculture
2 months ago

Kimberly Earls set to lead the Rural Ontario Institute

Most recently, she served as the executive director of the South Central Ontario Regional (SCOR) Economic Development Commission, a regional organization representing the counties of Brant, Elgin, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Oxford. In this role, she oversaw strategic planning, board governance, stakeholder engagement, and the execution of high impact initiatives. In addition to her executive leadership, Earls teaches part-time at Fanshawe College and holds a Master of Public Administration from Western University.
Agriculture
Toronto
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

TDSB says schools will be open Tuesday after snow forced closures | CBC News

Toronto District School Board will reopen schools Tuesday after record-breaking weekend snowfall forced Monday closures.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Critics say Ottawa's sustainable jobs plan offers no new support for energy workers | CBC News

Canada's sustainable jobs action plan primarily lists existing policies without targeted measures for energy workers facing displacement from the energy transition.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Ford muses about filling in part of Toronto waterfront for new convention centre | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is considering filling part of Toronto's waterfront to build a massive new convention centre, citing the current Metro Toronto Convention Centre as inadequate for the city's needs.
Toronto
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Meet the TTC cartographer giving its map a mega makeover | CBC News

TTC cartographer Alex Blackwell redesigned Toronto's transit map to add Finch and Eglinton LRTs, requiring about 20,000 map replacements and multiple design compromises.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Ecole de l'Etincelle Lab Ecole Saguenay / Agence Spatiale

Located in Chicoutimi, Saguenay, l'ecole de l'Etincelle is a shining example of architecture firmly rooted in its context. The architectural approach rethinks the conventional school and proposes a scale that is friendly, accessible, and reassuring for children. Fragmented into small houses around a central courtyard, the architecture becomes familiar and warm, creating a calming and reassuring atmosphere that encourages students to love school and feel comfortable, just like at home.
Education
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Ontario students stage mass protest over Ford government's OSAP cuts | CBC News

Ontario is shifting OSAP from 85% grants/15% loans to 25% grants/75% loans, prompting widespread student protests across the province.
Higher education
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

U of T dean of dentistry on leave over antisemitic images in course materials: school | CBC News

University of Toronto's dentistry dean is under investigation for using antisemitic and discriminatory images in course materials, including illustrations with antisemitic tropes.
fromState of the Planet
2 months ago

TRACX Program Connects Educators Worldwide with Ocean Science Research

The TRACX program really strengthened my research skills by allowing me to engage directly with authentic ocean core data and learn how to analyze it using real scientific methods,
Education
Higher education
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Sorcery, poisons and Dracula costumes: Unique courses found at Ontario universities | CBC News

Ontario post-secondary courses use niche subjects like vampires, witchcraft, and comics to teach critical thinking and engage students.
Higher education
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

As questions around OSAP cuts persist, here's what we know about the program | CBC News

Ontario is reducing OSAP grants to students while claiming sustainability is necessary, prompting concerns about increased student debt and deterred enrollment.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

New science centre will be built as early as 2029 with construction beginning in spring: Ford | CBC News

Ontario will build a new $1 billion science centre at Ontario Place, with construction starting spring 2025 and completion targeted for 2029.
Higher education
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Fears Ontario's student aid program will bring huge debt, put higher education out of reach | CBC News

Ontario will cap OSAP grants at 25% and convert 75% to loans, reducing affordability and jeopardizing students' postsecondary plans.
Higher education
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Facing financial woes, Humber Polytechnic offers staff voluntary exit packages | CBC News

Humber Polytechnic offers voluntary exit packages to staff due to significant budget challenges from international student caps, rising operational costs, and limited funding despite recent provincial support.
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

2 Toronto school boards open new virtual offices to help parents navigate concerns | CBC News

The offices "will ensure parents have a direct way to raise concerns, get help, and find solutions faster," Education Minister Paul Calandra said in a message to TDSB families last November.
Canada news
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Man allegedly set fires on U of T campus, Toronto police investigate | CBC News

A 42-year-old man is wanted for setting multiple fires and damaging property on the University of Toronto's St. George campus; no injuries were reported.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

NYU and SUNY Debut Higher Ed Design Lab

"We're bringing together two really significant and very diverse institutions, and it's a big-scale operation, so we'll be able to look at a lot of things across a lot of different environments," said Mindy Tarlow, senior fellow and professor at NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management, where the lab will initially be housed.
Higher education
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

As Ontario high school grades keep rising, graduating students worry about their university future | CBC News

Maya Duckworth-Pilkington spent the first two weeks of January buried in her textbooks, studying. Until she submitted her final advanced functions exam, the Rosedale Heights School of the Arts senior didn't realize how much time and effort she was putting into her studies. The pressure is higher than ever to do well, she explained over text message. People aren't sleeping well, eating well or getting leisure time.
Canada news
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Ontario post-secondary funding introduces tuition hikes, grant decrease in upcoming school year | CBC News

Ontario will invest $6.4 billion over four years in colleges and universities, end the tuition freeze, and modify OSAP grant structure to address post-secondary financial challenges.
#osap
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago
Canada news

Changes to OSAP force some students to reconsider plans as they face higher debt | CBC News

fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago
Canada news

Changes to OSAP force some students to reconsider plans as they face higher debt | CBC News

Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Ontario's colleges warn of more troubles ahead amid call for investment boost | CBC News

Ontario public colleges face a projected $1.5 billion deficit by 2027-28 and seek $1.5 billion provincial investment to sustain programs and training.
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Ontario education minister putting Peel school board under provincial control | CBC News

Ontario's education minister placed a seventh school board under supervision Wednesday in order to prevent dozens of teachers from being laid off, he says, and he is planning to soon take control of another board over financial concerns. Paul Calandra announced that he has put Peel District School Board under supervision and is giving the York Catholic District School Board two weeks to make a case for avoiding the same fate.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Liberal MPP urges province to reopen Ontario Science Centre as roof withstands record snow | CBC News

"most extreme test of the Science Centre's integrity a test that it passed flawlessly"
Canada news
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Parents urge Ontario government to reinstate TDSB class size cap for grades 4 to 8 | CBC News

A provincially appointed supervisor removed the TDSB's 32-student cap for grades 4–8, aligning with provincial rules and prompting concerns about larger classes.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Why some Canadians are betting big on 3D printed housing in Canada | CBC News

Investment in 3D concrete printing aims to speed construction and lower costs, printing walls quickly but requiring trades and builder buy-in to complete homes.
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