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.

The new Earth Sciences Building at UBC (ESB) is officially open - benefitting B.C. students and our future economy while cementing UBC as a world leader in geosciences education, research and training.

Aboriginal learners in British Columbia will have more opportunities to access skills training programs to help them on their career paths, thanks to a further investment of $1.8 million in the Aboriginal Training for Employment Program (ATEP).