Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:21:36 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb /features/catholic-education/item/5299-st-jerome%E2%80%99s-union-reach-settlement /features/catholic-education/item/5299-st-jerome%E2%80%99s-union-reach-settlement St. Jerome������Ƶapp University took two steps toward peace between professors and administrators March 24 as a first contract between the faculty������Ƶapp union and the university and a plan to set up a senate-like body to oversee academic matters by May 2012 were ratified by the university������Ƶapp board of governors.

The union contract will see St. Jerome������Ƶapp faculty keep pace with colleagues at the University of Waterloo in terms of salary and benefits. St. Jerome������Ƶapp is the Catholic college federated with the University of Waterloo.

It was how the school is governed, rather than money, that inspired the professors and librarians to seek union protection. But in the end, governance issues were not part of union negotiations.

A separate working group with representatives from the board of governors, administration and academic staff was struck to report on possible reforms to how St. Jerome������Ƶapp runs itself.
]]> crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Education Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:29:52 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/5274-tcdsb-to-reschedule-equity-policy-symposium /features/catholic-education/item/5274-tcdsb-to-reschedule-equity-policy-symposium TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board has cancelled its upcoming symposium on the province������Ƶapp equity policy, which was set to begin on March 26, with some hinting that it was because of a controversial keynote speaker.

Board chair Ann Andrachuk denied that was the case, saying the cancellation was “an issue with aligning panelists” and that it would be rescheduled.

“Everybody������Ƶapp got other commitments,” she said.

But trustee John del Grande, in a March 23 newsletter to constituents, said that in addition to the scheduling conflict of panelists, some parents had raised concerns about a speaker, Chris D’Souza, a course director at the York University Faculty of Education. D’Souza is also a former equity and diversity officer with the Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board.
]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:52:35 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/5262-celebrating-fr-troy%E2%80%99s-unconventional-ways /features/catholic-education/item/5262-celebrating-fr-troy%E2%80%99s-unconventional-ways TORONTO - Spiritan Father Michael Troy, founding father and principal at Toronto������Ƶapp Neil McNeil High School, had an untraditional way of thinking, said Fr. Gerald FitzGerald.

“There was a rapport, a relationship and a casualness between the priest-teachers and the boys that did not exist elsewhere and that was the unique spirit of Neil McNeil,” said FitzGerald, a fellow Spiritan who was a seminarian under Troy in Dublin and a science teacher at Neil McNeil. “He came in at a unique time in the spread of Catholic education — and I think he left a stamp on it.

“I think he shook up Catholic education,” said FitzGerald. “He came here with no preconceived ideas and he brought with him a tremendous freshness.”
]]> vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Education Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:36:07 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/5260-catholic-groups-have-concerns-over-full-day-kindergarten /features/catholic-education/item/5260-catholic-groups-have-concerns-over-full-day-kindergarten TORONTO - While Ontario������Ƶapp full-day kindergarten program is in high demand and considered by several Catholic education groups an “investment” in the future, there remain concerns.

The provincial government introduced the full-day kindergarten program in September 2010 at about 600 schools across the province. By September 2012, there will be close to triple that number of schools offering the program.

Among the issues that need to be worked out are funding and after-school care, according to some Catholic groups. Dan Barrett, president of the Toronto Association of Parents in Catholic Education, says once the full-day kindergarten classes end for the day, making an arrangement for care afterwards can be “problematic.”
]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:24:10 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/5238-new-tool-to-help-pick-catholic-education /features/catholic-education/item/5238-new-tool-to-help-pick-catholic-education OTTAWA - Canadian Catholic Campus Ministry (CCCM) has devised a tool to help guide students in choosing a university where there` can keep their faith alive.

The tool can help students find a school where there is a “vibrant, active student ministry” that will help “nurture their faith” and allow them to “blossom,” said CCCM co-ordinator Lori Neale.

The 2011 Status Report on Catholic Campus Ministry in Canada is the first of a series of status reports on the state of campus ministry across Canada. Neale said CCCM will track the information by doing a similar study in another two or three years.
]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Education Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:29:41 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/5229-school-board%E2%80%99s-equity-policy-up-for-debate /features/catholic-education/item/5229-school-board%E2%80%99s-equity-policy-up-for-debate TORONTO - As the Toronto Catholic District School Board hammers out its equity policy over the next several weeks, with public consultations scheduled for the end of March, some parents and trustees say “stronger language” is needed to ensure that the province������Ƶapp policy to promote diversity in “gender identity” doesn’t bypass Catholic school������Ƶapp denominational rights.

But others fear stronger language could have adverse consequences if Catholic school board������Ƶapp denominational rights are ever the focus of a court challenge.

Last year, school boards began implementing equity and inclusive education policies, with guidelines from the education ministry.

The province introduced its equity and education strategy in 2008 to prohibit discrimination based upon race, religion and sexual orientation. It became law in 2009.
]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:46:55 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11967-ontario-french-catholic-school-board-forced-to-compensate-raelians-for-religious-discrimination /features/catholic-education/item/11967-ontario-french-catholic-school-board-forced-to-compensate-raelians-for-religious-discrimination OTTAWA - A French Catholic school board in Northern Ontario has been ordered to compensate three members of a controversial religious group after an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal found the board guilty of discrimination.

On Dec. 15, the tribunal ordered the to pay unspecified compensation to Daniel, Michel and Sylvie Chabot, siblings who belong to the Raelian Movement and who operate the Academy of Pleasurology and Emotional Intelligence (APEI). ]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Education Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:27:15 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11966-teachers%E2%80%99-unions-natives-propose-school-initiative-to-combat-racism /features/catholic-education/item/11966-teachers%E2%80%99-unions-natives-propose-school-initiative-to-combat-racism TORONTO - The head of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association is calling for a popular aboriginal play to tour Southern Ontario schools to teach students about tackling racism.

James Ryan joined Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, and Isadore Day, Regional Grand Chief for Lake Huron Region and representative of the Union of Ontario Indians, in proposing an aboriginal education initiative that combats cultural stereotypes about First Nations students. ]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:44:29 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/12868-robotics-team-wins-engineering-competition /features/catholic-education/item/12868-robotics-team-wins-engineering-competition TORONTO - A team from Blessed Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough recently won the top prize at this year������Ƶapp National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Design Competition in Rochester, N.Y.

Beating out 10 other teams from New York State, the all-girls robotics team designed and built a robot which had to pick up as many white cans as possible from their field positions on an obstacle course and place them in the “finish box” within a three-minute period. “We were the only team competing from Canada,” said Mary Charles Hills, one of the team������Ƶapp teacher advisors. ]]> vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Education Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:19:16 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11844-st-jeromes-new-vp-no-stranger-to-campus /features/catholic-education/item/11844-st-jeromes-new-vp-no-stranger-to-campus ������Ƶapp new vice-president and academic dean is lined up to take over July 1, but he isn’t really new to the Catholic liberal arts college at the University of Waterloo.

James S. Frank attended St. Jerome������Ƶapp High School as a teenager, was a member of the St. Jerome������Ƶapp University Catholic Community for 36 years, was married to his wife Jackie by one of his priest-professors while studying at St. Jerome������Ƶapp and helped initiate the children������Ƶapp Sunday school program when his own kids were attending church at the university in the 1980s. ]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Education Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:56:42 -0500