At BC Colleges, we want to acknowledge the successes of our colleges, especially excellence in teaching and community building. We celebrate the many milestones, projects, collaborations and announcements from our colleges on our website, in our monthly newsletter, and throughout our social media channels.
Read about the latest news and activities happening at colleges throughout BC in this month’s What’s New at BC Colleges? e-newsletter.
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Sixteen Indigenous students have recently graduated from the Ship Repair Entry Level Training Program (SRELT), a collaborative marine industry training program, at the Camosun Coastal Centre on Songhees Nation Territory.
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Penticton’s newest child care centre is beginning the new year on a bright note with another influential community organization backing the project. The Southern Interior Development Corporation (SIDCO), an arm of Community Futures Okanagan Similkameen, announced a gift of $5,000 to Little Learners Academy on Okanagan College’s Penticton campus.
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NIC welcomes carpentry instructor Matt Melgaard this month, bringing his experience and a passion for lifelong learning to meet demand for carpentry training in Port Alberni.
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Join NIC in welcoming Governor-General Award-winning playwright Kevin Kerr to its Comox Valley campus Friday, Feb. 16 for a free public reading.
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College of the Rockies’ first-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students will be hosting a Health Awareness Fair on Thursday, February 8 from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Baker Street Professional Centre.
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The scope of a new high pressure steam boiler and facility expansion in the works at the College of New Caledonia’s (CNC) Quesnel campus is increasing to better prepare students for in-demand jobs.
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Okanagan College has a new Chair and Vice Chair for its Board of Governors. Chris Derickson, a councillor with the Westbank First Nation and a four-year veteran of the Board, was elected Tuesday as chair. Gloria Morgan, a former chief of the Splatsin Indian Band and an Enderby resident, was acclaimed as vice chair at the Board’s November meeting.
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For more than 30 years, Rick Sauvé has dedicated his life to improving the recognition of prisoners as rights-bearing citizens – a life’s mission he stumbled upon while serving 17 years in prison for murder.
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It is back to school for NWCC students across the region, and some classes are completing their studies in the college’s newest teaching lab. This teaching lab isn’t a typical classroom, rather it is a in a yurt.
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Encana generously donates six $1,000 awards each year to deserving Indigenous students at NLC.
