WATCH: Pro-Palestinian protests at universities across the world
Students on university campuses across the US continue to show their support in favour of Palestinians in Gaza.
Students on university campuses across the US continue to show their support in favour of Palestinians in Gaza.
A video showing a confrontation between a man and a woman wearing a hijab during a pro-Israel rally at Arizona State University is further highlighting the roiling tensions on college campuses across the US over the Israel-Hamas war. Here are the latest developments:
A University of Toronto encampment holding hundreds of students calling for the university to disclose ties with Israel, has entered it's seventh day. The protest is drawing both scrutiny and praise from the public and officials.
Organizers of the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto say school administration has been "unwilling" to discuss their core demands, after almost a week of protests.On Wednesday, a group of students and faculty members gave a news conference at the site of the protest at King's College Circle, where they laid out their demands once again. They say they want the school to disclose and end investments going to businesses that support the Israeli government and sever ties with Is
Most of the large group of pro-Palestinian protesters who had set up an encampment on the University of Calgary campus agreed to pack up and leave moments before police, with shields and riot gear, were set to begin forcibly removing them.The police line appeared set to begin marching when one of the protesters stepped forward and told the rest of the group that, if they left, none of them would be arrested. After some initial pushback, many of the protesters began breaking down and packing up t
CALGARY — Police in Calgary say multiple people were arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Calgary Thursday night. Video posted on social media showed officers tearing down makeshift fencing and tents prior to protesters leaving peacefully. In a statement, Calgary police say they were notified around 6:30 p.m. about an encampment protest on the campus, which grew to 150 protesters at its peak. After a few hours, police say they had encouraged about 60 protesters to leave
Xavier University of Louisiana has reversed course and canceled Saturday's planned commencement address by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield after news of her appearance sparked outrage among some students. University President Reynold Verret announced the decision in an email Wednesday to faculty, staff and students. “Everyone’s goal is to have a commencement ceremony that appropriately honors the graduates and their achievements,” Verret wrote.
When temperatures in Cambodia hit a staggering 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in April, Sek Seila, an 11-year-old student studying in the capital Phnom Penh, was promptly sent home from school.
FREDERICTON — Elected councils overseeing francophone school districts in New Brunswick are not immune from being dissolved if they don’t adhere to the province’s policy change affecting LGBTQ+ students, the education minister says. Bill Hogan was asked in the legislature Wednesday why he began steps to dissolve an anglophone school district council that is against applying the new gender identity policy when he has not acted against francophone school districts that also oppose the policy. "If
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It is part of a wider protest against the war in Gaza.
Faculty at the University of Southern California voted to censure the university’s president and provost Wednesday, citing the leadership’s poor handling of pro-Palestinian student protests and decision to effectively cancel commencement. The USC Academic Senate voted 21-7, with six abstentions, for censuring President Carol Folt and Provost Andrew Guzman. Faculty were specifically critical of leadership’s…
The vote followed a nearly three-hour meeting Wednesday in which USC's faculty members criticized the decisions of President Folt and provost Andrew Guzman.
One Students' Union says people are regularly sleeping in university buildings.
The University of Southern California faculty senate, citing academic freedom and free expression, Wednesday censured president Carol Folt and provost Andrew Guzman for their response to pro-Palestinian protests.
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As Nova Scotia mulls a new policy for cellphones in schools, a private school in Halifax says it has come up with a culture-changing solution.Since September, students in grades 7-8 at Armbrae Academy have been required to lock their phones inside a neoprene pouch. The phones stay there until the school day is over.Steve Clarke, the head of school at Armbrae, said the Yondr pouches have eliminated the struggle between students and teachers over cellphones. The devices are simply locked up and st