Tag Archives: Education
Summer reading program to continue at Wapiti Regional Libraries despite COVID-19 pandemic
With in-person programming being cancelled at libraries across the province, the Wapiti Regional Library is moving their summer programs online.The usual summer reading club participants can still get...
Jun 03, 2020
Fall education scenarios could be revealed soon: NESD Director of Education
The North East School Division (NESD) is awaiting the province's plan for re-opening schools.Students and teachers have been participating in supplemental learning curriculum since the province shut d...
Jun 03, 2020
Fermenting ferns? Rare dinosaur stomach fossil opens door to ancient world
Fresh ferns, loaded with spores, lightly dusted with leaves and twigs and perfectly seasoned with locally sourced charcoal. Sound good? It did to an ankylosaur about 110 million years ago, a...
Jun 02, 2020
Students wrap up special class online
A Prince Albert teacher is continuing with his outdoor education class online.Jordan Holmen, who teaches the class at Riverside Public School explained he and other teachers along with a representativ...
Jun 02, 2020
Local teacher hopes space launch can inspire students
Maybe you can remember where you were when the Apollo 11 mission blasted off in the summer of 1969, or when the first Space Shuttle cleared the tower at Cape Canaveral twelve years later? And perhaps ...
May 30, 2020
International student worry about pandemic as decisions loom on travel to Canada
VANCOUVER - Zohra Shahbuddin says she was thrilled when she received a letter of admission in April from the university of her choice in Canada. She's been admitted to Simon Fraser University in ...
May 30, 2020
Kinstino area woman appointed as Research Chair in Métis studies at U of S
An exciting chapter lies ahead for a Kinistino woman who has been named the Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI) Research Chair in Mtis Studies at the University of Saskatchewan (USask).Dr. Allyson Stevenso...
May 29, 2020
'It is dire:' Study finds B.C. logging continues on critical caribou habitat
The British Columbia government has permitted logging on more than 900 square kilometres of land despite its being listed as critical caribou habitat, says newly released research. The ...
May 29, 2020
NESD school year to wrap up June 19
Students and teachers will soon wrap up what has been a challenging school year, to say the least.School divisions across the province were forced to implement supplemental learning, as the COVID-19 p...
May 28, 2020
MUCC teachers drop signs of sunshine to grads during gloomy period
Melfort and Unit Comprehensive Collegiate's (MUCC) graduating class of 2020 received a literal and figurative sign of compassion from their teachers.Teachers at MUCC dropped off lawn signs to all 96 o...
May 27, 2020