Thebacha campus ups the ante with advanced Aboriginal language classes
Betty Elias of Tuktoyaktuk is a fourth year student in the Bachelor of Education program at Aurora College in Fort Smith. She speaks Inuvialuktun, but on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, she can be found...
View ArticleBeads merge with business in Aklavik
Four years ago, Aurora College sliced its traditional arts program on the Inuvik campus. Now, thanks to the demand of one small community, it’s returned. The former one-year certificate program is...
View ArticleRegional skills competition cancelled due to low turnout
The third annual NWT-South Regional Skills Competition scheduled for Feb. 8 in Fort Smith has been cancelled due to low registration numbers. High school students from the Tlicho, South Slave and...
View ArticleNWT principals awarded ‘outstanding’ title
Two NWT principals have been named “outstanding” by a Toronto-based education advocacy group, as announced earlier this month. Dan Summers of the Deninu School in Fort Resolution and Lois Philipp of...
View ArticleBeyond the classroom
The new president of Aurora College, Jane Arychuk, is no stranger to education in the North. She has worked for over 30 years as an educator in the Northwest Territories, from primary to post-secondary...
View ArticleARI priority for Aurora’s board of governors
Aurora College’s Board of Governors is looking to secure more federal funding for the Aurora Research Institute (ARI) to boost not only the institute’s cutting-edge work, but also its reputation. The...
View ArticleBusiness students petition for third year program
Kari Williams is a student in the two-year business administration program at Aurora College in Yellowknife. She’s set to receive her diploma this year and is currently looking into internships and a...
View ArticleAurora College Week builds sense of community
College spirit was high last week as campuses in Inuvik, Yellowknife and Fort Smith, as well as in the 23 learning centres across the Northwest Territories, celebrated the annual Aurora College Week....
View ArticleNWT teachers touched by students’ words on Education Week
For science teacher Thana Rahim, every one of the students she’s taught over the past seven years at Yellowknife’s St. Patrick High School have been like her own children. “I feel like a mother to all...
View ArticleGirls learn winter survival skills at Taiga camp
Six girls from across the territory have emerged from the bush with new life skills after participating in the first winter version of Taiga Adventure Camp, an outdoors-focused program seeking to...
View ArticleSouth Slave educators win Indspire awards
Two of the 12 educators selected from across the country for the brand new Indspire “Guiding the Journey” education awards just happen to be from the same small school district in the Northwest...
View ArticleForestry course brings careers into classroom
Hay River’s burgeoning biomass industry has teamed up with Diamond Jenness school to help high school students take advantage of emerging job opportunities in the sector through a new pilot forestry...
View ArticleNorthland improves use of Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal language and culture is becoming increasingly visible across Alberta’s Northland School Division (NSD) as the authority, serving mostly First Nations and Métis students in the northern part...
View ArticleADCS experiments with first-ever science fair
The Athabasca Delta Community School (ADCS) in Fort Chipewyan made scientific history last week with its first-ever, school-wide science fair. Students from Grades 1-12 showed their stuff on Wednesday...
View ArticleCabin burns down during PWK winter camp
A handful of Paul W. Kaeser High School students from Fort Smith are thankful to be home after avoiding disaster during the annual Grade 9 winter camp on Piers Lake, where they spend five days each...
View ArticlePWK students land in China
Paul W. Kaeser high school is changing up its biennial international trip this year. While the school usually heads somewhere predictable in Europe like Italy, Spain or England, this year’s destination...
View ArticleLutsel K’e Chipewyan dictionary celebrates local dialect
The traditional dialect of Lutsel K’e Chipewyan will be immortalized in a written and audio dictionary likely by the end of the summer, thanks to the combined efforts of the community and the South...
View ArticleEducators awarded highest teaching honour in NWT
Two NWT educators have received the prestigious Cliff King Award, the highest honour given by the Northwest Territories Teachers’ Association (NWTTA). Al MacDonald, vice principal of Sir John Franklin...
View ArticleFort Smith school travels to Asia for first time
Paul W. Kaeser high school students from Fort Smith have returned home with no short supply of worldly experience after 10 days galavanting across China, from the jam-packed capital of Beijing to...
View ArticleDesigning the oilsands’ future from the comfort of home
Move over crystal balls and tarot cards – Alberta’s future is being read with a geographic information systems (GIS) simulator these days. With oilsands activity rapidly expanding in the province, the...
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