Public school grads had edge
A new study has contradicted well-worn assumptions that private schools better prepare students for university.
The study of performance by first-year physics and calculus students at UBC admitted from Metro Vancouver schools found those from public schools scored slightly higher than those from private schools.
The UBC authors of the study suggested students who advance from public schools, often with less individual attention than at independent schools, may be better equipped or motivated to survive the sink-or-swim university environment.
The study, which looked at 4,500 students from 2002 to 2006, also found those from Vancouver’s east side schools did better than those schooled on the more affluent west side.
Food waste pickup ramps up
More cities within Metro Vancouver will soon prod their residents to put kitchen scraps and other food waste in green bins for curbside organic pickup instead of throwing it in the garbage.
All single-family homes in North and West Vancouver are being offered kitchen scrap pickup along with yard waste starting May 1.
Delta made the move in April and it’s to be followed by Pitt Meadows and Bowen Island in June and Surrey in October.
By fall, organic food waste pickup will be offered part of curbside service in 16 Metro municipalities, leaving Maple Ridge, Langley City and a few smaller communities still to go.
Organic material currently makes up 30 per cent of Metro’s waste stream.
– Black Press
Bladder bugging you?
Researchers are looking for participants willing to take part in a
pilot study at Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre in Surrey.
They’re recruiting males who live in the Lower Mainland who continue to suffer from urinary incontinence after receiving prostate surgery.
The study will look at whether group exercise and behavioural therapy can decrease urinary incontinence and improve quality of life for participants. For more information, visit www.groupmalestudy.com or call 604-582-4550, Ext. 762416. The study is being launched with $5,000 from the Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation.
– Cloverdale Reporter
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