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Committee hears of school attendance problems in Canada’s Nunavut territory

1 October 2019 13 h 49 min — 1 October 2019 13 h 52 min Sara Frizzell, CBC News 0 Comments education, Nunavut, youth

MLAs in Nunavut, Northern Canada grilled the departments of Education and Family Services on what they’ve been doing to remove

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Education, wage subsidies key in Finland’s budget for 2020

19 September 2019 15 h 53 min Yle News 0 Comments Antti Rinne, budget, climate change, economy, education, Finland, Wage subsidies

Finland is looking to invest in wage subsidies and education in the 2020 budget agreed by government parties this week,

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Blog – Climate change education is not just about science

13 September 2019 10 h 08 min — 13 September 2019 16 h 20 min Ingrid A. Medby 0 Comments climate change, education, global warming, indigenous knowledge, Students on Ice

Tackling climate change requires radical transformations across society – from individual households to national governments, from the language we use

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Shortage of qualified teachers in Northern Quebec schools

10 September 2019 16 h 53 min Jamie Pashagumskum, CBC News 0 Comments children, Cree, education, First Nations, Inuit, Nunavik, schools

Under the pressure of a teacher shortage, school boards across Northern Quebec are putting unlicensed educators into classrooms. Harriet Keleutak

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After 4 years, Canada’s Liberal government hasn’t released its plan for the Arctic

3 September 2019 10 h 20 min David Thurton, CBC News 0 Comments Arctic Policy Framework, defence, economy, education, elections, indigenous, Inuit, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, POLICY, Yukon

After four years in power, the Liberal government still hasn’t delivered on a promise of a detailed plan for developing

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Northern Canada: Nunavut, Nunavik face major teacher shortages as school year begins

21 August 2019 14 h 58 min Angela Hill, CBC News 0 Comments education, indigenous, Inuit, Nunavik, Nunavut

Teacher shortages are continuing across Nunavut and Nunavik for another year, with both regions continuing to hire even as schools

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Canadian, Icelandic universities team up for migration conference

16 August 2019 1 h 01 min — 21 August 2019 12 h 26 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 2 Comments education, First Nations, indigenous, Language, literature, University of Iceland, University of Manitoba, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages

Canada’s University of Manitoba and the University of Iceland’s Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages at will team up later

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Alaska governor cites public response in veto reversals

15 August 2019 14 h 17 min Andrew Kitchenman, Alaska Public Media & KTOO - Juneau 0 Comments Alaska, budget, children, education, elderly, Mike Dunleavy

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy hasn’t wavered from many of his positions since taking office. But that changed this week. Dunleavy

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School system in Canada’s Northwest Territories needs major reform, education minister says

14 August 2019 16 h 44 min Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments Caroline Cochrane, education, Northwest Territories, NWT

The education system in Canada’s Northwest Territories is failing students and is in desperate need of reform, but it will

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University of Alaska: Governor halves vetoes, spreads cuts over three years

14 August 2019 11 h 12 min — 14 August 2019 13 h 35 min Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, budget, education, Mike Dunleavy, University of Alaska

In a major reversal, Governor Mike Dunleavy announced Tuesday he’s agreed to restore roughly half of the funding he vetoed

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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories expect ‘hectic’ sitting ahead of territorial election

12 August 2019 14 h 46 min Sidney Cohen, CBC News 0 Comments carbon tax, education, elections, legislation, mining, Northwest Territories, NWT

Northwest Territories MLAs, in Northern Canada, have a jam-packed agenda as they head into their last scheduled sitting before the

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University of Alaska system to be consolidated into one accredited university

1 August 2019 16 h 22 min Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Anchorage, budget, education, University of Alaska

The University of Alaska Board of Regents voted 8 to 3 to move towards consolidating the entire university system to

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Saskatchewan, Canada researchers to establish Indigenous-led centre focused on HIV rates among First Nations, Inuit & Métis

25 July 2019 12 h 50 min — 25 July 2019 13 h 01 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments education, health, indigenous knowledge, University of Saskatchewan

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has awarded a federal grant to First Nations researchers at Canada’s University of Saskatchewan

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Northern Canada: Leaders looking for answers to improve education in Sahtu communities

22 July 2019 15 h 30 min Michaela Crook, CBC News 0 Comments Colville Lake, deline, District Education Authorities, education, Education Act, First Nations, NWT, Sahtu, teachers

Representatives from two communities in the Sahtu region, Arctic Canada say they aren’t happy with their quality of education, and

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University of Alaska students, staff on edge due to impending budget cuts

12 July 2019 11 h 01 min — 15 July 2019 11 h 15 min Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Anchorage, budget, education, legislation, University of Alaska

On the day the Legislature unsuccessfully attempted to override Governor Mike Dunleavy’s line-item veto, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) biology

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