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How the Pandemic Messed Up My Education

July 22, 2022July 26, 2022 - by Trudeau Gulati

Students everywhere sat through months of experimental learning plans, and we’re only just starting to see the unintended consequences

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Illustration of a school desk featuring a butterfly landing on an apple shaped like a skull. Below the apple is lined paper covered in school supplies intertwined with leaves, flowers and a caterpillar.

Education / May 2022

Death 101: Life Lessons from the Country’s Only Degree Devoted to the End

April 18, 2022May 9, 2022 - by David Swick

Some first-year arts students are asked to write papers about Plato or Jane Austen; thanatology students need an existential sensibility

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A composite image: on the left, a university building with greenery and a blue sky. On the right, a dark campus with a streetlight in the middle.

Education / November 2021

Inside the Mental Health Crisis Facing College and University Students

October 26, 2021October 27, 2021 - by Simon Lewsen

Campuses are offering more wellness programming than ever before, so why are rates of student mental illness on the rise?

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Illustration of a university campus. On one side, students relaxingly speak to each other and work at computers in the sun. On the other side, in the shadows, are overcrowded ladders of students climbing in through windows.

Education / September/October 2021

The Shadowy Business of International Education

August 18, 2021May 29, 2022 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it

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Photo of a teacher standing at the front of a classroom, raising her hand to a whiteboard. Behind her, a class full of students raises their pointer fingers. Above each finger is an illustration of a green dot, like an unanswered notification.

The Epidemic of Teacher Burnout

December 14, 2020February 11, 2021 - by Inori Roy

Provincial funding for schools has been decreasing for decades. Many educators aren’t sure they can go on

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Illustration of a student sitting alone on a bench, typing on a laptop. They are sitting in a circle of yellow. Around them, in orange, is an empty campus full of buildings.

A Lonely Year on Campus

November 9, 2020November 10, 2020 - by Jadine Ngan

Tuning in to lectures from bedrooms and basements, students face an isolating postsecondary experience. But many still see hope

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Education / November/December 2020

Black in the Ivory Tower

October 12, 2020January 30, 2022 - by Hadiya Roderique

Why it’s so hard for academics of colour to pursue their dream projects

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Why Home-Schooling Was Right for Me

May 12, 2020November 8, 2021 - by Elizabeth Howell

When school stifled my creativity, my parents turned to independent learning

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