Seventeen students and apprentices from throughout B.C. were honoured last night as B.C. gears up to host the 2013 Skills Canada National Competition.

Future health professionals in the Lower Mainland will benefit from additional student spaces at Vancouver Community College to get advanced training for health-care assistants to provide the high-quality health care B.C. families deserve.

Students at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design will benefit from improved and upgraded campus facilities, thanks to $194,000 in capital funding that is part of government's investment in B.C.'s post-secondary infrastructure this year.

Post-secondary students and faculty in a diversity of programs from medicine to shipbuilding, Aboriginal languages to physics and engineering will have the opportunity to advance their learning online thanks to a new round of projects funded by the Online Program Development Fund.

Students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) will benefit from improved and upgraded campus facilities, thanks to over $2.4 million in capital funding that is part of government's investment in B.C.'s post-secondary infrastructure this year.

Students at Vancouver Community College (VCC) will benefit from improved and upgraded campus facilities, thanks to $4.6 million in capital funding that is part of government's investment in B.C.'s post-secondary infrastructure this year.

Students at Langara College will benefit from improved and upgraded campus facilities, thanks to over $2.2 million in capital funding that is part of government's investment in B.C.'s post-secondary infrastructure this year.