education

By Jennifer Wilson The Tibetan uprising of 1959 turned 59 this week. The Voice caught up with Tibetan independence activists at a rally in Vancouver to ask them whether their movement had relevance for young people in Canada today.…

Students are upset with curriculum requirements that cost them hundreds of dollars in textbook purchases each semester, when only a small portion of the books are used in class

A Surrey parent has enrolled her children in a public school in Delta because she was concerned about overcrowding, drug dealers and the presence of gangsters at her neighbourhood school.

Reported by Christopher Thoroski The Langara Faculty Association is launching an ad campaign ahead of this May’s provincial election to protest cuts to post-secondary education funding by the B.C. Liberal government. The ads will be…

Produced by Brian Kurokawa On this week’s edition of The Voice podcast, Melanie Green and Sean Hitrec sit down with Scott Forbes to discuss their stories that appeared in the October 13 edition. Sean’s article entitled “Camera’s rolling,…

Cyberbullying is driving a considerably higher portion of post-secondary students than adolescents to consider suicide, said an SFU professor. Close to a quarter of students bullied In an ongoing study by SFU researcher Wanda Cassidy, 22…

Balancing fitness with school, family and friends is already a difficult task for most students, but usually school takes precedence. "Time is a big factor," said university transfer student Durim Maloku. "When you work out for two…