A new medical school on the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Surrey campus is taking a significant step forward with the hiring of an interim dean and provincial funding to support its development.

Nearly 150 Selkirk College students at the Castlegar and Nelson Silver King campuses can look forward to new on-campus housing with construction underway on the new student housing buildings.

More students will be able to live where they study at Thompson Rivers University’s Kamloops campus.

More than twice the number of students at the College of the Rockies now call campus home with the addition of 100 new student beds at the Cranbrook campus.

Improving care for people in British Columbia is central to investments in workers as the Province launches a health human resources strategy to optimize the health system, expand training and further improve recruitment and retention.

The Province is making education accessible by working with Capilano University (CapU) on a new centre for childhood studies that will more than double the available child care spaces on campus.

More students who study at Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Nanaimo campus will be able to live where they learn with the addition of 266 new student housing beds and a new dining hall.

University of Victoria (UVic) students are benefiting from more on-campus housing with the first of two new student-housing buildings opening, ready for students to move in and call the spaces home.

Douglas College students will be able to live where they learn for the first time in new student housing at the New Westminster campus.