Alberta is overhauling its high school graduation requirements, tightening the list of courses students must complete to earn a diploma. Under the changes described across outlets, students need fewer senior-level English or social studies courses, while senior-level math and science requirements are addressed differently.
According to Global News and the Winnipeg Free Press, the new structure reduces the humanities course burden by requiring only one senior-level course in either English or social studies. The reporting also indicates that senior-level math and science are not made universally mandatory under the updated rules.
The outlets emphasize different aspects of the same policy shift: Global News highlights the “more gym, less humanities” framing, while the Winnipeg Free Press focuses on how Alberta is reducing the need for both science and humanities courses to graduate. Together, the coverage provides a basic picture of the requirement changes, but details beyond the high-level course distribution are not included in the provided summaries.
