With just a few days before Labor Day, hundreds of workers from trade unions yesterday gathered to form stronger ties and demand a legislated wage increase.
Ontario Registered Early Childhood Educators (RECEs) are still waiting for their promised 2024 wage increases and advocates say the delay is causing stress for workers and contributing to the ongoing staffing shortage. In November 2023, the Doug Ford government pledged to increase the minimum wage for RECEs to $23.86 an hour, a nearly $4-bump from what they were expected to get that year. The new wage floor would be implemented in 2024, officials said at the time, with additional $1 raises...
England international Ivan Toney is expected to leave Brentford this summer. Manchester United have emerged dark horses in the race to land his signature. Liverpool have been 'hungover' since Man United dumped them out of the FA Cup - where has their energy gone? Listen to the
Meta has said it will unveil a new product later in the year which will aim its Quest devices at education. It should make Quest devices easier for teachers to use in their classrooms.
Claire Thornton, USA Today breaking news reporter, talks about the calls by pro-Palestinian student protesters for their colleges and universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel.
Sean Dyche spoke to the media from Goodison Park on Thursday afternoon -
The failures of the public school system are many: students are barely keeping up with baseline academic expectations, many have simply stopped showing up at all, and the resources allocated to districts to address both of these problems (totaling in the hundreds of billions of dollars) apparently have disappeared. Worse still, our public schools have […]
Where Highly Educated Migrants Come From Voters in India are getting set to head to the polls this weekend, in what has been dubbed the world’s biggest election. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to determine whether Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will rule the country for a third consecutive term. Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports that,according to data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey, one of the major challenges facing the country...
How many people can say their fifth grade class trip helped launch them on their path in life? I can.
Why is it that so many students in the modern American education system say that school is “boring”? Aren’t they learning about the most fascinating aspects of our world? Isn’t part of human nature, as Aristotle teaches, to desire to know? In his brilliant essay “The Loss of the Creature,” the novelist and philosopher Walker
Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the medical field are under attack, including in Iowa. Last month, Rep. Greg Murphy, R-North Carolina, introduced the Embracing Anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act into the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill seeks to revoke federal funding from U.S. medical schools that “force students
CIVIL servants are set to revive their demand to be paid US$850 or its ZiG equivalence when they have their second quarter To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions