It is exciting to see how the 57 IsDB Member Countries, spread across four continents, are striving to build a future that blends a purposeful embrace of cutting-edge technologies with the rich heritage of Islam, situating them as a vibrant source of education and culture.
Many IsDB member countries are scaling up investments in education, fully cognizant of the fact that a well-educated and properly skilled workforce is vital towards diversifying their economies and fostering peaceful and prosperous societies. Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, for example, includes a specific human capital program focused on building basic and advanced skills to better…
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Alberta Government investing millions into Indigenous education – StrathmoreNow.com
The Alberta government is investing $10.5 million over three years to Indigenous Partners through the pilot program “Bridging Classrooms to Communities.”
“Creating welcoming environments, demonstrating cultural awareness and providing system supports through the Bridging Classrooms to Communities program will help support Indigenous students’ success in and out of the classroom,” a government press release said.
Working with partners like the Alberta Native Friendship Centers Association (ANCFA), the investment will look to help build relationships with local school authorities to advance reconciliation and support the hiring of community connections workers to strengthen student relationships with Indigenous communities.
The ANCFA will receive…
Education assistant with racy OnlyFans account fired for what employer calls ‘egregious’ conduct
A Maple Ridge education assistant who says she was struggling to make ends meet has been fired over her second job: posting racy content online, including on OnlyFans.
Kristin MacDonald, 35, has posted titillating photos and videos for about a year under the name Ava James on the website known for custom pornography.
That drew the ire of School District 43, where MacDonald had been an education assistant since 2015 at Terry Fox Secondary in Port Coquitlam.
The district ordered her to shut down her adult content on social media, including on OnlyFans, in April or risk being fired.
MacDonald…
Debate on controversial education bill may extend NB legislature sitting – New Brunswick
A day after the premiere Blaine Higgs said debate changes to the Education Act could stretch into next week, all three parties say they are working on an agreement to extend the spring sitting of the legislature.
“The whole program could continue if we find that questions continue then for us to move into next week and add hours to the program, I mean I’m open to that,” Higgs told reporters Tuesday.
The 111-page overhaul of the Education Act, or Bill 46, would see the anglophone district education council lose decision making power and move to a purely advisory role.…
‘It’s micromanaging’: Unions say Quebec education reform won’t solve issues – Montreal
Dressed in medieval garb Friday, members of the Fédération du personnel de soutien scolaire (FPSS-CSQ) clamored that “his majesty” Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville doesn’t want to listen to school support staff.
Union members were outside Quebec’s National Assembly, upset they were not invited to hearings over Bill 23, the province’s education reform.
“Bottom line is you have to listen to what’s happening down (at ground level). It should go up and not the other way around,” said Julie Gervais, a special education technician.
Gervais says the minister is giving himself too much power. The union’s president agreed.
“His Majesty…
Mother says the education minister asked her to help rewrite the LGBTQ policy she supports
A Saint John mother is speaking out after she says the minister of education asked her to help rewrite a section of an LGBTQ-protection policy she fully supports.
On Tuesday, Nicole Paquet spoke to the Progressive Conservative caucus about how that policy, if it had been implemented correctly, would have prevented harm to her son who was outed by a teacher, resulting in the family needing to move to a new community so her son could change schools.
Her presentation was related to the review of Policy 713. One section said if a child under 16 asks to go by…
Higgs’s remarks on LGBTQ policy called ‘deplorable’ by education council members
Members of the Anglophone East district education council have waded into a debate over New Brunswick’s policy on LGBTQ students in schools, with one member calling Premier Blaine Higgs’s comments on the issue “deplorable.”
“I know it’s recent news, it just came out, but the premier’s comments regarding Policy 713 tonight are absolutely deplorable,” Dominic Vautour said during the council’s meeting Tuesday evening in Moncton.
It was one of a series of comments by Anglophone East council members, who oversee a district in the southeast region of the province with more than 18,000 students, that criticized the government and its…
Powers of anglophone school councils curtailed under proposed reforms
The Higgs government is reforming how district education councils govern the province’s schools, including a potentially thorny change that will see different models for the English and French systems.
In the four anglophone school districts, elected councils will lose their decision-making authority over budgets and over superintendents, and will now only play an “advisory and accountability” role.
In the three francophone districts, the councils will keep those powers.
That’s because under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, minority-language communities in each province have the right to self-govern their own education systems.
In the four anglophone school districts, elected councils will…
