Tag: students
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Best Countries For Post Covid Study Abroad Programs
As more students are heading towards graduation each year, the struggle to get a graduate job is becoming more difficult, and students have to ensure strong CVs in order to stand out from the crowd. The Covid pandemic has put a halt to students having options in countries other than their own. However, with a…
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Virtual Reality Use In Classroom Shows Deforestation Reality
“When the viewer looks down, they’ll see their arms are branches, their body is the trunk, and when they move, the tree moves too.” – Winslow Porter Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality Markets are expected to reach US$162 billion by 2020. How can schools use virtual reality to make learning more engaging? Most of us…
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Dance Healing Immigrant Victims Of War Prejudice And Sexual Exploitation
Study after study has shown that arts education nurtures students’ creativity and problem-solving skills, competencies that are critical for success in a 21st Century world, but how does dance and movement facilitate healing and transform at-risk youth? New York’s Battery Dance launched its Dancing to Connect programs in 2006. Since that time, the program has…
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Largest Campus Telescope In Canada At York University
Toronto’s York University will soon play host to the largest telescope on a university campus in Canada. The university announced recently that the new one meter telescope will arrive in 2018 to replace the existing 40 cm telescope which is used to conduct astronomical research. The current record holder (at the time of this article)…
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SABRE Announces $15,000 Safe In Smart Scholarship Sweepstakes
SABRE, the number one brand of pepper spray trusted by police and consumers worldwide, is holding a scholarship Sweepstakes that will award one winner with $15,000 in scholarship funds. The Safe Is Smart Scholarship Sweepstakes is set to run from July 1st to September 1st—just in time for the back to school season. Recent campus safety statistics…
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Ontario Increasing Minimum Wage- will also affect Liquor Servers, Students
Province Committed to Providing Fairness for Workers, Predictability for Business Ontario is raising the general minimum wage from $11 to $11.25 per hour, effective October 1, 2015. Minimum wage rates for jobs in special categories such as liquor servers, homeworkers, and students are also increasing at the same time. The increase is the result of…