The SchoolFinder Group Team’s Good News Stories of 2025

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Welcome to our 6th edition of our team’s good news stories! As we wrap up 2025, our team is taking a moment to reflect on the many good news stories that made this year one to remember.

 

Chris Wilkins

Chris:
Global Post-Secondary Education Attainment Worldwide is Now 33%, Up from 13% in 1995

In 1995, the year I started the SchoolFinder Group (then known as EDge Interactive), I wanted to help make the world a better place through “helping students find the right school and scholarships”. My view was (and still is) that an educated world is a better world. No doubt the world is facing some challenges these days, but I remain committed and hopeful. I look forward to the day we can celebrate over 50% of the world attaining a post-secondary education!

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Diana Carapet

Diana:
Renewables Become Biggest Source of Electricity Globally for 1st time, Beating Coal

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.

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Haley Prentice

Haley:
A Pile of Puppies Treatment Cheers Up Seriously Ill Kids with Bundles of Cozy Joy

It was founded by Jennifer Trepanier, a woman who grew up with a chronic inflammatory condition and developed an autoimmune disorder while pregnant, who experienced the uncontainable joy of a puppy pile-on.

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Jona:
Couple Converts Their Home into ‘Hedgehog Haven’ to Rehabilitate Over 500 Spiky Critters

Andy and Sharon Longhurst have helped heal and rehabilitate over 500 European hedgehogs over nearly 3 years, and though they aren’t veterinarians, they can’t help but help when someone brings them a hedgehog.

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Kevin Menezes

Kevin:
A Combination Implant and Augmented Reality Glasses Restores Reading Vision to Blind Eyes

A “new era” has begun in the development of artificial vision after a combination electronic eye implant, with augmented reality glasses restored vision to blind eyes in patients with untreatable macular degeneration.

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Logan Bright

Logan:
Lonely B.C. Donkey with Yoga Ball Finds Family with New Herd

“The excitement was just pure joy for him,” Michelle smiles, showing video of Earl grabbing the ball with his mouth and throwing it in the air, running and jumping on it, and pushing the ball with his nose and chasing it around the field.

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Mahir Hoque

Mahir:
From Virtual Mentors to Storytelling Robots: How One Nurse is Using Technology to Help Children Cope with Pain

University of Toronto professor Jennifer Stinson is transforming paediatric pain with the help of apps and other tools – proving that technology can be a powerful ally in healthcare.

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Max Hyland

Max:
Retired Cop Rehabs Bus into Mobile Laundry: He Now Washes Clothes for the Homeless

The cop never forgot his call to service. He pooled multiple donations with some of his own money and went to work creating a full service laundromat on wheels.

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Nick Fard

Nick:
After 20 Years, an Agreement to Protect the ‘High Seas’

The ocean is full of rich natural resources, like genetic material from coral, that countries and companies are looking to use for everything from pharmaceuticals to new technologies. The UN High Seas Treaty will help fill gaps needed to conserve and regulate these resources.

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Tess:
This Man Read 3,599 Books in His Life. His Hand-Written Reading List is Inspiring Others

Dan Pelzer, a retired Ohio social worker, died on July 1, 2025, at the age of 92, and left behind a massive, mostly hand-written list of every book he’d read for the last six decades.

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York Chen

York:
Canada Announces New Incentives for International Recruitment of Master’s and PhD Students

Beginning 1 January 2026, master’s and graduate students planning to enrol at a public university in Canada will be exempt from the enrolment cap, reflecting an apparent encouragement in favour of graduate student recruitment.

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Thanks for reading! We hope you enjoyed these uplifting stories, and found a little something to celebrate this holiday season.

Can’t wait for 2026!

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