Tag Archives: Education

The Battlefords & District Chamber of Commerce (BDCC) is launching the first Indigenous Awareness Training Program in North Battleford. The program will take place on Sept. 27, in alignment with t...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba is the latest province to restrict the use of cellphones in classrooms beginning this school year. There is to be a ban for students in kindergarten to Grade 8, while those in high...

A local school division's director of education wasn't surprised at the government's announcement that cellphones won't be permitted during class time during the upcoming school year. Horizon School D...

The North East School Division (NESD) is reacting to the provincial government's new measures regarding cellphones in the classroom. Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill announced last week that cellpho...

QUBEC - The Quebec government is creating a consultation group to study the pedagogical and ethical issues related to the use of artificial intelligence in universities. In a news release today, the p...

Northlands College will open a learning centre this fall on the Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation. "We have approximately 20 students already registered for this fall and we were actually up in the ...

North Battleford Library recently renovated its theatre room in partnership with the Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC). This is a step towards modernizing a space that has long served the city.T...

Data contained in the Northern Lights School Division's (NLSD) annual report shows students continue to underperform when compared to their provincial counterparts. The report, which was released thre...

Four days in December have been set aside for a contract arbitration hearing between the Saskatchewan Teacher's Federation and the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee. The hearing will run from De...

While the president of the Saskatchewan School Boards Association agrees that distraction-free classrooms are important, Jaimie Smith-Windsor said the new school cellphone ban was not "high on the pri...