New Zealand’s Labour-led coalition government used its first budget to drive step changes in social and environmental outcomes. The investment approach to public policy has become the new orthodoxy for governance. More...
21 mai 2018
21 mai 2018
You’re never too old to learn a new language
A new study on second language learning has recently taken the media by storm. A range of headlines – from the BBC to the Daily Mail and The Guardian – all trumpeted the depressing message that it’s impossible to become fluent in a foreign language after around age ten. All of these reports dramatically misrepresented the findings from the study, and the message they sent is flat-out wrong. More...
21 mai 2018
Does breastfeeding really belong on the school curriculum?
The idea of introducing breastfeeding to the UK school curriculum has once again hit the news and is, of course, receiving a varied reception. But should the idea be taken seriously? The answer is, of course, yes. More...
21 mai 2018
Lessons from Bertrand Russell in today’s world
They come from all over the world to see, touch and read the originals of tens of thousands of letters, to study boxes of drafts and revisions of his ideas and mathematical equations, to understand his complex personal relationships and to explore the commitment to peace and opposition to nuclear weapons that landed him in jail more than once. More...
21 mai 2018
What I learned from Lithuanian students
The term transition economies is what we now use to describe Eastern European countries that, until 1991, were under the grip of the Soviet Union before moving away from a centrally planned and Communist economic system and towards a free enterprise and market economy. More...
21 mai 2018
Atlantic Canada needs international students
Federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen has repeatedly urged international students to stay in Canada, and the governments of all four provinces in Atlantic Canada have created special pathways to help international students transition to permanent resident status. More...
21 mai 2018
In Venezuela, to do research is to fight for civilization
Universities have also been under assault, ever since the so-called “Bolivarian revolution,” led by late President Hugo Chávez, declared war against universities, scholars and students. More...
21 mai 2018
The secrets of immigrant student success
More than 7.5 million foreign-born Canadians entered the country through the immigration process, according to 2016 Census data — representing more than one in five Canadians and more than one third of school-aged students. More...
21 mai 2018
Why sexting must be on the curriculum
A recent controversial segment on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle discussed whether schools should teach students about “sexting” (sharing sexually explicit images or videos through electronic means). In Canada’s largest province, the leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party recently vowed to repeal the sex-education curriculum if elected premier in next month’s election. More...
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