Over 2,000 students from all over the world recently gathered at the Vancouver Convention Centre for the 21st World Model United Nations Conference. Also known as WorldMUN 2012, it is an annual student simulation of the UN. The local and international students attending the mini-UN came to debate, negotiate and solve challenging global issues, such [...]
Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association (NPA) candidates for school board are proposing a new way to pay for future city schools: public/private partnerships. “We have been promoting [the ‘no-cost’ model] and it’s no different from what we’ve done in the past. It’s just that we need to get it out there,” said the NPA’s Ken Denike. The [...]
The city needs to improve Aboriginal education, says Vancouver School Board (VSB) chairperson and municipal candidate Patti Bacchus. “The graduation rates are fairly abysmal and school completion rates for students who complete high school are shockingly low relative to non-aboriginal students,” she said. As of 2009, 47 per cent of Aboriginal students enrolled in grade [...]
A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia is readying the launch of a new educational website that aims to offer an interactive history of Chinese Canadians. More than two years in the making, the site, Chinese Canadian Stories is due to be unveiled in January. Henry Yu, who heads up the project, said [...]
Today, as I made my daily rounds of lurking for interesting videos, I came across a remarkable 1988 PBS Bill Moyers’ interview of author, professor and prolific thinker, Dr. Isaac Asimov. The interview left me awe-inspired at Asimov’s vision of the future and how similar it is to where we currently stand and where it [...]
More than 500 people chanted “Save our school!” at a Vancouver School Board meeting Monday Oct. 25. Parents, students and teachers were there to protest the closure of Sir Guy Carleton Elementary school. “They knew they needed $1.4 million to save the school. If they close the school, they’re only saving $480,000,” said Radhika Girn, a [...]
A tent the size of a small cabin seems starkly out of place in the quiet, carpeted entrance of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia. But from January 16th to 26th two UBC students camped out at the library, battling the 24-hour fluorescent lights and the all-night security guards [...]
Earlier this week I was sitting in my history class stressing out because I hadn’t had a Latin American encounter of any kind for what felt like ages. I was desperately trying to come up with a plan: make a piñata, listen to more Silvio Rodríguez, call my mom. And then, from across the classroom, Carlos [...]
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