Adult learners around the province will get help to improve their reading, writing and numeracy skills and advance their education and career goals thanks to government funding for the Community Adult Literacy Program (CALP).

$200,000 in one-time funding means that ongoing programs and research aimed at supporting Aboriginal students' success in their post-secondary studies will continue at the University of Victoria.

B.C. school buses travel over 33 million kilometres each year, the equivalent of 43 round trips to the moon.

Premier Christy Clark announced $794,000 to upgrade skills training equipment at Northern Lights College.

With help from some enthusiastic students and staff, Education Minister Don McRae officially re-opened Lord Kitchener Elementary today following an $18.7-million seismic upgrade and partial replacement of the school.

Students at Northwest Community College training to work as heavy duty equipment technicians, welders, electricians, carpenters, millwrights and in other skilled jobs will be learning on the very latest equipment, thanks to $3 million from the government of British Columbia.

An extension of an agreement between government and the Central Interior Logging Association (CILA) will allow 30 more students to train as log and chip truck drivers or heavy-equipment operators under the Forest Industry Readiness Skills Training (FIRST) program and place them in permanent positions within the sector.