Australia’s Home Affairs Department has confirmed there has been no significant increase in the number of visas issued to Chinese students despite the Chinese regime’s recent ban on online learning, forcing students to return to foreign universities around the world. During a Senate hearing on Feb. 13, the Home Affairs Department confirmed that it had…

New regulations prohibiting schools from mandating masks and shifting to online-only learning have been announced by the Alberta government, which said many families have often been caught unprepared by these measures in the past two and half years. “Regulatory changes will guarantee students and parents have access to in-person learning. These changes also clarify that…

Australia’s universities should provide partial fee compensation for students because they didn’t deliver the study experience, as they promised during the pandemic, according to Australia’s shadow minister for education. Shadow Minister for Education Alan Tudge, who is the federal member for Victoria’s seat of Aston, said on Wednesday that universities need to make an “extra…

Traditionally, our academic adventures end when we graduate from high school or college. We then move on to other phases of life such as starting a career, getting married, and having children. But sometimes there’s either an urge or a need to further our education, which raises questions such as, “Am I too old to…

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Unified School District’s Superintendent Alberto Carvalho confirmed on Feb. 28 the district will create several new online schools in anticipation of an influx of online program enrollment when the district’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate takes effect in the fall. The six new independent online learning programs have been planned to accommodate students…

Commentary As we enter 2022, we approach the two-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s quite shocking for me; I was 16 at the start of this and I’m now old enough to be able to vote. Despite this gap of time having passed, it feels as though we haven’t progressed. A…

Commentary It started in Chicago, where an incredible 91 percent of union teachers voted to go on strike and refused to do what they get paid to do, which is teach. Then the union walkouts spread to Maryland, New Jersey, and California. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a liberal Democrat, has attacked the Chicago teachers unions…

Commentary The 2021–2022 school year was supposed to be better than the year before. With vaccination rates climbing and the worst of the pandemic seemingly over, everyone hoped that schools would look much more like normal. Sadly, this is not the case, at least not in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). That’s because school boards…

Education experts are calling for calm after it was revealed that many children in Victoria have fallen behind their peers, with some as old as seven starting the school year without knowing the alphabet. To help, the Victorian state government has employed more than 5000 tutors in schools to help kids catch back up after…

An Iowa school teacher got out his toolbox and headed for the hardware store after learning that many students didn’t have at-home workspaces sufficient to support online learning. Nate Evans, a 7th Grade literacy teacher from Ankeny, realized that some students had logged into online classes from their kitchen tables or beds because they had…