Education
We must break our culture of sex shame
May 25, 2015I was never given “the talk” while growing up. Not once did my parents even off-handedly bring the topic up, let alone sit me down and explain what sex and sexuality was. Looking back as an adult, the lack of sex education and openness about the subject is one of the only elements of my childhood that I wish had been drastically different. While in school, I was given a fair share of sex education. During elementary school, we were shown age-suitable puppets that taught us about private parts and inappropriate touching. In contrast, while in high school I was…
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Jamie Oliver, leave a child’s diet alone
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2043" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] This Christmas I sat down, flipped on my TV, and engulfed myself in the guilty delights of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Comfort Food series. As a trickle of drool anointed my…
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Take control of your education with an SFU directed study
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1922" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of CollegeDregrees360 (Flickr)[/caption] March, April, May: the spring semester is coming to a rapid end and the time for course registration is upon us. Another term where we must face the challenges of schedule…
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Scrap the tuition fees; education is a right
March 9, 2015[caption id="attachment_935" align="alignnone" width="940"] Image Credit: Andrew Moss (Flickr)[/caption] I’ll let you know right off the bat that I’m currently $25,000 in student debt. With another two years of post-secondary education on the horizon, I estimate I’ll be at over…
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Post-secondary grads score low in math proficiency
November 24, 2014A new study from Statistics Canada revealed that over 20 per cent of Canadian university graduates scored a two or lower on a scale from zero to five measuring mathematical ability. The study, titled Programme for the International Assessment of…
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The end of textbooks
September 15, 2014How much did you spend on textbooks this semester? You don’t have to answer that. We all know that feeling of disappointment that comes with shelling out more than $100 on a textbook you’ll probably never use again. For decades,…
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BCTF strike raises post-secondary questions
September 15, 2014As the BCTF strike keeps students out of the classroom for the third week this fall, the concern now shifts to whether current high school students will encounter difficulties when applying to post-secondary institutions for the 2015 academic year. A…
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Why I’m siding with BC teachers
September 8, 2014On June 5, 2001, when I was just seven years old, Christy Clark began her reign as BC’s Education Minister. The BC Liberals, a party Clark now leads, ran on a platform entitled “A New Era for British Columbia” which…
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Making the Grade
September 2, 2014What do you think the average GPA of a student in your department will be this fall? The graph above displays the mean grades by department at SFU, averaged from 2008–2013 in 3rd and 4th year courses. As you can…
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