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The new #Compendium is here, and it’s more than just data. [Part 2]
While every NREN is unique, we’re united by a shared mission: delivering interlinked core services that power #Research & #Education

Terrifying move- not a surprise, but still bone-chilling.
#education #fascism

U.S. Department of Education, AFPI, TPUSA, Hillsdale College, and Over 40 National and State Organizations Launch America 250 Civics Coalition
The U.S. Department of Education, alongside the America First Policy Institute, Turning Point USA, Hillsdale College, and more than 40 leading national and state-based organizations today announced the launch of the America 250 Civics Coalition.

Another example how our #education system fails to prepare our kids for life:
I met an engineer(!) who thought that switching from a 4G Internet router to fiber glass Internet would boost the signal strength in his Ethernet sockets and of his #WiFi so that it'd reach more corners in his house. 🛜

“The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.”
#AI #Education
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper

"87 per cent of UK schools in toxic air zones, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Schools #Education

87 per cent of UK schools in toxic air zones, study finds
More than 25,000 British schools are in areas exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines

2% of Americans with a child under 9 years old say that they read with their child.
#reading #children #education

Superintendent Walters and Prager U are not OK. #censorship & #indoctrination instead of #education

Oklahoma Proposes 'America First Test' for teachers from New York and California
Oklahoma requires teachers from NY and CA to pass a test combating "woke indoctrination," ensuring alignment with state values.

Superintendent Walters and Prager U are not OK. #censorship & #indoctrination instead of #education

Oklahoma Proposes 'America First Test' for teachers from New York and California
Oklahoma requires teachers from NY and CA to pass a test combating "woke indoctrination," ensuring alignment with state values.

GÉANT’s GN4-3N project is a finalist in the European Digital Connectivity Awards 2025 🎉
We’re honoured to be nominated in the “Cross-border and international connectivity” category, recognising the GN4-3N project’s role in building a more inclusive, resilient, and future-proof network infrastructure for the European #Research &

Thank you faculty and students from the University of California for standing up for #education, #research, #knowledge, and

The average undergrad tuition fee in the 1974/75 academic year in Canada, across all disciplines, was $547 ($3445 adjusted to 2025)
Fees 50 years later in 2024/25 were $7360 ($7496 adjusted)
That is more than double. 117%.
And I *know* from personal experience this is a low ball average. If I could find a breakdown by discipline or by length of study for today, some would be even more obscene.
What has changed? Any occupation outside a minimum wage paying job demands a 2-4yr undergraduate diploma or degree, if not more.
Think about the 1970s and how common it was for people to get good paying jobs, leading to careers, without even high school education. Our free education stops with high school.
My family is a good example.
Mom and Step Dad: teacher college/degree. One got a Masters mid career.
Dad: didn’t complete HS
Father in law: didn’t complete HS
Mother in law: completed HS mid-career
Leadership positions and full careers demand a Masters or PhD requiring 5-10 years of study after HS!
Add in the cost of food and housing and the massive cuts happening at all colleges and universities because of the loss of international student tuition and I am going to go out on a limb and say our students today are going to pay double the price for a far worse experience than possibly any time since the Second World War.
Public education should be free.
Food and Housing should be controlled.
If the only thing government cares about is the economy, then they are setting us up for failure, and have been for decades.
(Don’t get me started on the kinds of “values” Canadian governments demonstrate when International student tuitions are 5x more than domestic students, let alone the inherent revenue risk in that funding strategy that has now come home to roost)
#canpoli #cdnpoli #education #university #college #canada
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74/75 Source Stats Can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710015001&pickMembers[0]=1.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=1972 / 1973&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2006 / 2007&referencePeriods=19720101,20060101
24/25 source stats can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710004501
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Let’s take a look back at GÉANT’s 2024 — all in one place.
Our 2024 Annual Report captures how GÉANT and its community of NRENs continue to drive innovation, collaboration, and impact for the European #Research & #Education community.
Inside you'll learn more about the GÉANT GN5-1 a…

Opportunity to comment:
Federal Register :: Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
#InternationalStudent #Education #F1visa #J1visa #GraduateStudent #Postdoc

Cc: to B.C. Minister of Health @… #viu #university #postsecondary #canada #education #gendergap #men #manosphere

"Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters"
#Spain #Climate #ClimateChange #Education

Very glad to finally see this issue being addressed in a major publication. The headline is a little confusing. It’s not about engineering, it’s about all disciplines.
Even as we have made gains getting women into post secondary now young men are not coming, aside from a few specific traditional areas. Especially in Arts and Humanities, there is a huge gap. I see it every day at my university.
We need to reverse this. We need men and women in every field and discipline. We need men and women learning critical thinking, learning history, learning biology, learning engineering, together, collaboratively, in ways that speak to all genders.
I blame a large part of the gap on a notion that is still perpetuated by both regular people and government, that “trades gets u a job” with implicit and explicit bias toward those trades being male dominated. The manosphere often degrades traditional “thinking” degrees as not masculine enough.. or have been “woke” and a threat to stereotypical male roles. Plus there remain biases against teaching and healthcare as “women’s” work in those influential spheres, and not helped by general society either.
TLDR: we just need to stop devaluing post-secondary every other moment of the day and make it free and easy for absolutely anyone to walk in and expand their minds!
#viu #university #postsecondary #canada #education #gendergap #men #manosphere
https://archive.ph/NhuKo