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Low enrollment after last week’s reopening causes layoffs and fear of closures in child care sector

June 22, 2020

Enrollment in recently reopened child care centres is often not meeting the threshold necessary for operations to be financially viable. As a result, there are reports of workers being laid off, and within the sector there are grave concerns that some of the centres will not be around come fall. That would be disastrous for an already fragile sector and the working parents who rely on its services.

Letter: Are we really ready to open child care centres?

June 18, 2020

Letter: I realize that we must strive to get the economy back up and running, but at what expense? Do we risk the lives of the day care workers or others including parents and families for the sake of supposedly getting unemployed mothers /partners back to work.

Raising tuition fees will cause NSCAD students to drop out, student union fears

June 15, 2020

Students at NSCAD University, the venerable post-secondary art school in Halifax, are worried that tuition fees will be raised once again this year. How are students going to pay the already very high fees, especially Black, Indigenous and POC students who are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus crisis? the student union asks.

Switching to online classes creates severe time pressures for university and college teachers

June 11, 2020

Dr. David Westwood: “Before COVID-19, it was understood that a year or more of planning, development, and refinement was required for a single, high quality online course offering. Now, professors have scarcely three months to change over all of their courses in time for the fall semester. “

Media release: NSCAD students face fee hike in the middle of a pandemic

June 9, 2020

Students at NSCAD university are currently fighting the threat of a tuition increase in the middle of a global pandemic. Tuition at NSCAD University is now the highest of any Arts University in the country where students are paying on average $2000 more a year.

Mount Saint Vincent University intends to cut 100 part-time instructor contracts this fall, says post-secondary education coalition

June 8, 2020

Mount Saint Vincent University is cancelling contracts with its part-time instructors, causing either fewer courses to be taught or sections of courses to be combined. We spoke with Scott Stewart, Chair of the alliance that’s raising the alarm.

Open letter from unions in Nova Scotia’s post-secondary education sector

May 1, 2020

A new alliance of higher-education unions urgently calls on the Province of Nova Scotia, the Federal government, and university administrations to support our higher-education sector through this crisis. Help us protect our institutions, our students, and our work for Nova Scotia.

News release: NS Parents for Public Education supports decision to close public schools while dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic

March 16, 2020

Nova Scotia Parents for Public Education with a membership of almost 17,300 parents, grandparents and care givers of students in the Province, would like to express our support for the decision to close Nova Scotia Public Schools during this difficult and unprecedented time in the province in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Students in Halifax walk out in support of Wet’suwet’en land defenders

March 4, 2020 1 Comment

Some 800 students walked out of their Halifax universities and schools this afternoon in support of the We’tsuwet’en Nation’s struggle to defend its sovereignty.

Media release: Budget 2020 leaves little for students with the highest tuition fees in Canada

February 25, 2020

Media release: Students were looking for a bold investment in education and the climate, and saw neither. Tuition has increased more than 20% since this government came to power, making Nova Scotia the least affordable province for pursuing post-secondary education. Instead of making investments in students and investing in a just transition to a green economy, the government continues to give tax cuts for corporations.