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Nunavik’s first in-region university program aims to recruit more teachers

CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 6, 2025 at 15:30
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By Samuel Wat  New course would reduce time for Nunavik teachers to train up Nunavik will soon have its first

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Teachers vote to approve deal with Nunavik school board

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 09:11
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By Félix Lebel, Francis Tessier-Burns  Recently, 90 per cent of teachers and 95 per cent of support staff voted in favour

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Yukon schools continue to struggle with shortage of teachers-on-call, emails show

Jackie Hong, CBC News @xjackiehong
Posted: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 14:56
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Yukon schools continue to grapple with a shortage of teachers-on-call — a situation that was particularly dire at the beginning

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Nunavut sees new crop of teachers, nurses as students graduate from college

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 12, 2023 at 11:39
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‘It’s a good feeling to be done school and being able to serve Nunavummiut,’ says graduate It took nearly eight

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Industry boom means more teachers needed in northern Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, October 21, 2022 at 08:37
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Major industrial projects in the north of Sweden have led to a lack of teaching staff in schools. To meet

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School boards in Canada’s N.W.T. ‘concerned’ by shortage of substitute teachers

Emma Grunwald, CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 12, 2022 at 08:28
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The Yellowknife public board’s list of supply teachers for this year is half its average number School boards in the

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Teachers remain in short supply in Canada’s Arctic Nunavut territory

Jane George, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 10:58
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‘Close to 10 per cent of our teaching memberships are vacant,’ says union head By the end of this week

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Iceland RCI Society Society (Iceland) 

New COVID-19 restrictions for Iceland’s schools and universities

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 10:05
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Iceland has put in place a new series of COVID-19 measures in educational institutions that came into effect November 3.

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: Nunavut parent and teacher groups decry changes to education, language acts

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 15:26
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The organization representing parents of Nunavut students, in Arctic Canada, is denouncing a controversial proposed law that would change the

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Inuktitut language education terminology developed for Inuit region of Arctic Quebec

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 08:36 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:23
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How would you express “professional development” in the Inuit-language dialect of northern Quebec? What about concepts like “theoretical knowledge” or

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

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

Michaela Crook, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 22, 2019 at 15:30
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Lack of teachers causes school year delays in Northern Canadian territory

Michelle Pucci, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 10:24
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A teacher shortage has meant classes in at least one community in Nunavut (east-Canadian Arctic) have seen the start of

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The judgement was based on teacher salaries, grades and on how many of its students continue their studies at university. (Sofia Strindvall / Sveriges Radio)
Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Town in northern Sweden leads the pack of best schools

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 12:03
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The northern town of Piteå was selected as Sweden’s best school district for 2013 in the annual ranking of the

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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