[Image-1] Staffing troubles have fired up at the Nova Scotia Community College’s IT campus, and it’s the students who may end up burned. According to students, instructor David Jellicoe, faculty at the Leeds Street Institute of Technology, has been let go by administrators for copying his lessons wholesale from online sources. Jellicoe was up until […]
Education
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Have you hugged a straight person today?
[Image-1] “Have you hugged a straight person today?” That was the announcement students heard at Millwood High as the school kicked off its first ever “straight pride month.” The first of its kind event at the school is the creation of the Millwood High gay straight alliance. The 20-person group is trying to encourage other […]
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Students aren’t at the table—we’re on the menu.
[Image-1] The McNeil government is currently in talks with Nova Scotia’s universities for a new Memorandum of Understanding, an agreement signed every few years to set multi-year funding levels and tuition fee regulations. Regrettably, the Liberal government is blocking students from participating in the talks. Students are key stakeholders in the university system and excluding […]
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Let’s push for lower tuition rates
Nova Scotia has had no shortage of snake-oil get-rich-quick schemes. Consider the allegedly humungous natural gas deposits off our shores, which were supposed to turn us into Alberta East—the actual reserves are so puny that production will dry up in a few years. Some consultants made some dough, I guess. Otherwise, meh. Or, for a […]
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Building the little green schoolhouse
Last century I studied some environmental education at York. My professors walked the walk, and inspired us the way they would have us inspire our students. You need inspiration to make change. A decade later, I sometimes lose hope that we’ll change, and I have to think a long way back to find that inspiration. […]
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How to enroll in a summer course
Academic, my dear Watson Are you too busy to take a course? Well, why not take a course in Time Management through the Nova Scotia Community College. Hurry, the one-day workshop is happening on June 20 and will teach students things such as how to save up to one hour per day of time, overcome […]
