Education

Post-secondary institutions adapting to current realities

Saskatchewan Polytechnic is adapting to the new realities brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak. The school has transitioned many classes to online portals. Dr. Has Malik, provost and vice president aca...

Apr 11, 2020 Saskatchewan Polytechnic is preparing for a number of possibilities going forward, (Submitted Photo/Saskatchewan Polytechnic)

Living Sky begins transition to online curriculum

After several weeks of waiting, teachers, students and families will have some direction of where to go educationally this spring, as school divisions across the province are putting their teachers ba...

Mar 30, 2020 Living Sky School Division staff and teachers are back to work this week in preparing students for online study. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)

North West College to continue clinical work for nursing programs

Some post-secondary institutions in the province are looking at continuing their nursing programs throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and within new safety parameters.North West College is currently work...

Mar 27, 2020 Clinical work for nursing students at North West College will pik this week, with increased safety parametres in place. (battlefordsNOW Staff/Josh Ryan)

LLRIB Director of Education apologizes for now-deleted Facebook post

"Any teacher not preparing to teach online and creating digital tools is basically resigning."That's how Lac La Ronge Indian Band Director of Education Simon Bird started a recently deleted Facebook p...

Mar 24, 2020 Simon Bird is the director of education of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band. (Simon Bird/Facebook)

Cree names given to star and exoplanet

The Cree language has been linked to astrology for thousands of years, using the sun, the stars and the moon as navigational guides. But now, Cree names for a star and its exoplanet will be used in ev...

Mar 18, 2020 A star and its exoplanet have been renamed in Cree as part of a naming contest. (ID 125461858 © Vitalij Kopa | Dreamstime.com)

Sask. schools to close as of Friday amid COVID-19 pandemic

The Government of Saskatchewan has announced the closure of all schools starting Friday. The decision came on a day when the province's seventh presemptive case of the COVID-19 was confirmed.Pre-K to ...

Mar 16, 2020 (file photo/paNOW Staff)

U of S closing all recreational facilities

The University of Saskatchewan is closing all recreational facilities on campus beginning Monday morning to increase preventative measures surrounding the spread of COVID-19 in the province.According ...

Mar 15, 2020 (CKOM News Staff)

U of R suspends classes due to COVID-19 concerns

Due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns, the University of Regina has decided to suspend classes for a short period of time and will no longer provide face-to-face teaching the rest of the semester.The U of ...

Mar 14, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)

School divisions make changes amid COVID-19

Schools in the province are taking varying degrees of measures as COVID-19 worries continue.The Regina Catholic School Division said it's pausing all assemblies as of late Friday morning. Gatherings w...

Mar 13, 2020 (File photo/CJME News Staff)

U of S to “operate as usual,” considers remote classes

The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) issued a statement Wednesday afternoon on the "quickly evolving COVID-19" situation.In a release by University Communications, the U of S says they're focused o...

Mar 12, 2020 (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)