Students at Camosun College and Vancouver Island University who want to learn a trade are getting a helping hand with close to $500,000 in one-time funding for 130 foundation seats in targeted trades training courses during 2013-14.

Twenty open textbooks will be developed for skills training and technical post-secondary subject areas.

Work is underway to adapt more open textbooks for use by students and instructors in British Columbia with an open call for proposals to begin the second phase of the project.

An investment of $2.4 million by the provincial government is helping adult learners around the province improve their reading and writing skills by providing them with the help they need in their home communities.

Government is moving ahead with its commitment to partner with a publicly funded post-secondary institution to develop a school of traditional Chinese medicine.

Many post-secondary students starting or returning to classes this September will be attending one of British Columbia's private universities, colleges or career-training schools.

With the start of another post-secondary school year, our government is working diligently to ensure Aboriginal people can access the education and training they will need to take full advantage of job openings we expect in the years ahead.

The most-recent round of student outcomes surveys show that 93 per cent of post-secondary students, who completed programs at British Columbia's public universities, colleges and institutions, are satisfied with their education and training.