Monthly Archives: February 2021

Everything you need to know about Canadian spousal sponsorships

Everything you need to know about Canadian spousal sponsorships

As a country, Canada is fully committed to family reunions and keeping the loved ones in togetherness. For this reason, Canada provides several immigration family sponsorship programs. These programs offer citizens the possibility to sponsor their family members to immigrate to Canada most appropriately. There are three types of family sponsorship programs: Spousal and common-law […] … learn more→

Psychology carries a dark past: how the discipline can be Africanised

Psychology carries a dark past: how the discipline can be Africanised

It’s well documented by many scholars that psychological warfare took place for a long time as part of the colonial conquest. The colonialists laboured to ensure that black people’s minds were colonised. And to this end, many theories were developed (by white psychologists) to prove the inferiority of the black mind. One of the consequences of this […] … learn more→

What do we lose by abandoning Greek and Latin?

What do we lose by abandoning Greek and Latin?

When we could travel without pandemic obstacles, Italy and Greece were preferred destinations for millions of people, who came there attracted by their museums and archaeological sites of those two cultures on which ours is based. Museums in Spain see their rooms full when they organize exhibitions related to the classical world: the success of Las […] … learn more→

England’s education recovery plan should focus on wellbeing, not on ‘catching up’

England’s education recovery plan should focus on wellbeing, not on ‘catching up’

The most recent lockdown and school closures have, once again, thrown educational provision in England into crisis. Nearly a full year of disruption of schooling will have had a serious effect on children’s education. The outgoing children’s commissioner, Anne Longfield, has called for children to be at the heart of the recovery from COVID-19. The government […] … learn more→

‘You’re running down a dead end’: stranded students feel shame and pressure to give up study

‘You’re running down a dead end’: stranded students feel shame and pressure to give up study

A petition from more than 17,000 international students asking for exemptions to the border closure was presented to the Australian parliament last week. The latest available figures show about 20% of Australia’s enrolled international students were stranded offshore. Of the 92,191 in this position, 70% were Chinese. We worked with Chinese international students to collect 28 written accounts of […] … learn more→