Trades students on the Sunshine Coast can now enjoy an enhanced training experience in new, energy-efficient surroundings thanks to a timely renovation of the trades centre at Vancouver Island University's Powell River campus.

Students at the Langley campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University are enjoying improved access and enhanced services in support of their studies with the completion of an extensive rebuild project at the Langley campus.

A new, $25-million, K-12 francophone school, École au Cœur-de-l'île, has officially opened in Comox. With the recent opening of Campbell River's École Mer-et-montagne elementary, francophone students in the area now have two new state-of-the-art, green, comfortable schools.

The first cohort of nursing students at Okanagan College (OC) are on their way to completing the first half of the four-year bachelor of science in nursing program with the help of the college's new, state-of-the-art health simulation lab.

For the first time in B.C. immigrants will receive advanced workplace-specific, settlement-focused language training to help them find and keep jobs and settle into their communities.

Students and staff in the community of Zeballos will soon be attending a brand new school with a StrongStart BC Centre, and a Neighbourhood Learning Centre, which includes a full-sized gymnasium that the community can use on evenings and weekends.

Education Minister George Abbott issued the following statement Oct. 4, 2011 regarding consultation between government and the BC Teacher's Federation over Bill 28.

A community celebration was held to celebrate the official opening of École Mer-et-montagne, a new elementary school to serve Francophone students in the Campbell River area.