Jessie Sunner, Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, has released the following statement in celebration of Construction and Skilled Trades Month:

Campus renewal brings better learning spaces, new job opportunities to Victoria

Protecting B.C.’s global reputation for quality education and students from bad actors

The Province is launching an independent review to strengthen the public post-secondary education system and ensure it is sustainable and well-positioned to support people in British Columbia and B.C.’s economic growth.

Students at the University of Victoria (UVic) law school now have a dedicated space to learn Indigenous laws and legal traditions with the opening of the new Indigenous law wing.

British Columbia is boosting skilled-trades training throughout the province so people can secure family-supporting jobs created through major projects.

Jessie Sunner, Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, has released the following statement on Apprenticeship Recognition Month:

The Simon Fraser University (SFU) school of medicine is accepting applications for its first class of future doctors, marking the launch of the first new medical school in Western Canada in nearly 60 years.

Government is introducing legislation and an action plan to strengthen support for post-secondary communities in preventing and responding to sexual violence.