When it comes to lifelong learning, Amanda Brazil walks the talk. The new member of the Learning Partners Advisory Committee is working on her PhD in educational studies at UPEI. She also juggles her day-to-day responsibilities as a mother of two children and a full-time job as...
During School Libraries Week, Island schools are finding fun and engaging ways to celebrate how their libraries help to develop students into lifelong readers and learners. Education, Early Learning and Culture Minister Doug Currie is one of several guest readers and local...
The provincial government will match the nearly $17,000 raised through Postmedia’s 2016 Raise-a-Reader campaign to support Island literacy. The donations matched by the province’s Department of Workforce and Advanced Learning will fund the PEI Literacy Alliance’s Summer Tutoring...
Students of any age can learn about job skills and career planning at events happening this week. Today marks the beginning of National Skilled Trades and Technology Week, as well as Atlantic Canada Career Week, both October 31 through November 6. The two initiatives were...
In his 30 years as an elementary school teacher, Bill Hogg was always looking for a more meaningful ways to reach his students. Sometimes it was just a matter of getting them away from the ever-present technology and into the great outdoors. “Kids who are connected to the natural...
The following is courtesy of the Atlantic Canada Tourism Partnership. Tourism continues to be one of the world’s fastest-growing economic sectors, and it is of strategic importance to Atlantic Canada. It supports 9,600 businesses and provides full-time equivalent employment to 57...
Trout River Industries founder Harvey Stewart solved a worldwide problem in the heavy trucking industry with an innovation developed right here in Prince Edward Island. Getting a load out of a dump truck trailer used to mean raising the trailer to a severe angle so the contents...
Canada’s Labour Market Ministers met today to discuss strategic priorities and enable progress on shared interests such as: renewed collaboration on labour market transfer agreements, improving labour market information, strengthening apprenticeship, labour mobility and foreign...