Masks will be mandatory for all K-12 students in BC schools starting Monday
In all school settings, including the bus.
SD61 is offering a FREE three-week Educational Assistant training program next month
With potential job offers upon completion!
This tool will help alleviate the stress of job interviews for young students
Camosun’s storytelling tool helps demonstrate skills to an employer.
Mandatory masks, optional vaccinations: province issues back-to-school plan
Most students, faculty, and staff must wear masks in class.
Vancouver Island universities and colleges will be going back to in-person learning this fall
Health measures including health checks and hand hygiene will be implemented.
BC schools set to go back to ‘near-normal’ in September
Kids will no longer be grouped into cohorts.
Non-profit offers free sexual violence prevention training to Victoria restaraunts, bars and clubs
In wake of sexual assault allegations in the city.
Victoria’s Camosun College to receive $150k for potential on-campus film studio
Students in trades will help with the construction of the studio.
Greater Victoria School District considers cutting most music classes in schools
A board meeting on the considerations will take place tomorrow.
Vancouver Island School of Art relocating to downtown Victoria
An art sale is planned for May 15th.
Two new Langford schools will open for students in September 2022 (VIDEO)
Both schools will welcome 1,200 students .
Masks now required indoors for B.C. middle and secondary school students and staff
K-12 staff must also wear masks indoors.
UVic professor of Indigenous Law appointed to Order of Canada
"There's a moment, a flash in the pan here with an award, but the work continues."
Vancouver Island colleges to receive over $1M for more health care training
Out of a total $4.4 million investment in similar programs at institutions across B.C.
These institutions are offering FREE online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic
Broaden your horizons and take an Ivy League class or two!
Province announces 462 new child care spaces coming to Greater Victoria
As a part of the New Spaces Fund launched in July 2018.
Province announces 260 new child care spaces coming to Victoria
144 of them will be co-located at three elementary schools
Top companies rank UVic graduates among best in Canada for employability (REPORT)
Both Google and Tesla employ dozens of UVic graduates ⚡
MacLeans ranks University of Victoria 2nd best comprehensive school in Canada
For the second year in a row!
New accessible playground opens at Sidney Elementary School
One of four Victoria schools to receive new playgrounds this fall
City of Victoria wants volunteers to act as ‘fire evacuees’ in upcoming emergency drill
Do you have what it takes?
1 in 4 children in BC are not school-ready when they enter first grade
United Way funds reading programs that can help!
UVic students will study with prison inmates in new philosophy course this Fall
10 UVic students and 10 Wilkinson Road jail inmates will be studying works by influential writers and thinkers
Camosun college will supply free menstrual products on Lansdowne campus washrooms
In the first floor men's and women's washrooms in the Library and Learning Commons
Feds announce $100M investment to research Indigenous health at UVic
It is the federal government’s largest single investment into Indigenous health ever.
BC is increasing public school funding by over $1 billion compared to 2017
Education funding has increased by 17.1%
Province to build new $4.2M Children’s Development Centre in Saanich
The current 53-year-old centre is not up to modern seismic safety standards.
UVic receives $9.1M federal grant to build national Indigenous law centre
It'll be the first Canadian university to offer a Common/Indigenous joint law degree.
Coastal Naturalists are returning to BC Ferries starting tomorrow
Over 100 extra presentations have been added to the schedule! 🐳
Annual World Oceans Day celebration returns to Victoria Fisherman’s Wharf this weekend
Think you’re smart enough to reassemble a life-sized Orca skeleton?
BC announces nearly $3M investment for childcare spaces on Vancouver Island
161 new licensed child care spaces will open within the next 10 years.
Federal government provides $18.8 million for UVic research grants
Funding is going towards “life-altering breakthroughs” in medicine and more.
Victoria student wins provincial science fair for his biomedical research
Another Victoria student came in third place!
Province invests $3.2M to make textbooks at BC universities free
Programs in science, early childhood education, engineering and more will benefit.
UVic researcher awarded $1 million grant to fund his cancer research
He’s designing a diet-based immunotherapy.
Province contributing $27.3M to expand Royal Bay Secondary school
The project will add 21 classrooms to the school.
Province invests nearly $2 million in bursaries for early childhood educators
BC is trying to catch up on “pent up demand for quality child care”.
Province looks to explore new post-secondary options in West Shore (REPORT)
High school graduates are half as likely to attend university as the BC average.
All BC public schools will be required to provide free menstrual products by the...
One-in-seven students has missed school because they couldn't afford menstrual products
The 58th annual VIR Science Fair is happening in Victoria this weekend
Last year’s 17-year-old winner developed a probe to aid in spinal surgeries.
Royal BC Museum seeks public input for modernization initiative
They’re long overdue for a glow up ✨
Province announces measles immunization catch-up program in BC schools
The program will run from April through June of this year.
These 5 schools in Greater Victoria will be getting new playgrounds this fall
Did somebody say recess?
This new program in BC schools strives to keep teenage boys away from crime
The province is investing $1.12M into the program.
Family benefits and cheaper student loans among BC Budget 2019 highlights
Families can receive up to $28,800 for one child.
Victoria student earns $100,000 national post-secondary scholarship
She is 1 of 35 recipients across Canada
Education on BC’s Great Bear Rainforest now being added to provincial curriculum
BC's coast is home to the rarest bear on earth: the spirit bear.
BC educators are now learning anxiety prevention strategies for classrooms
“When we address these issues early, students will be able to not just survive, but thrive..."