The Ministry of Education and Child Care is seeking expressions of interest from school districts for the development and delivery of interactive, experiential learning activities for students in Grades 6-9 that showcase in-demand, public sector health careers. Read the backgrounder for more details on this opportunity.
Find Your Path is a personalized, interactive education and career planning tool that allows users to choose an area of interest and easily navigate different paths that connect post-secondary programs, skills training, and careers. Please share this resource with the contacts below.
The Ministry of Education and Child Care’s Career Programs and Policy Unit will present a series of events for K-12 students across B.C. that highlight career exploration and career development. This initiative is part of the StrongerBC: Future Ready Action Plan. Read the K-12 Career Exploration and Development Virtual Events bulletin for more details.
Applications for the B.C. Excellence and Pathway to Teacher Education scholarships are now available on the ministry’s website and are due by February 15, 2024, 2:59 pm PST. Selected applicants must graduate and meet core eligibility and scholarship-specific requirements by August 31, 2024, to be confirmed for an award. Those students will be sent a scholarship voucher of $5,000 for tuition reimbursement …
A Course Equivalency and Challenge quick reference guide is now available to support school TRAX data submissions. Correctly reporting a course equivalency or challenge ensures student transcripts are complete and accurate.
The Ministry of Education and Child Care awards 13,500 scholarships to eligible graduating students annually. Please review the program summary and use this Scholarships Program infographic to help start the conversation with students, parents, and staff about this opportunity. More information can be found on the BC Achievement, District/Authority, BC Excellence, or Pathway to Teacher Education scholarship web …
The Ministry of Education and Child Care is seeking expressions of interest from school districts to advance new or existing career sampler programming and resources targeting in-demand, public sector health care occupations. These programs or resources must target Grade 8-12 students and showcase a range of public health care occupations. Please see this background document for more …
The Provincial Tuition Waiver Program is available to former youth in care studying full- or part-time at the undergraduate level at a BC public post-secondary institution, the Native Education College, or one of 10 union trades training institutes. Effective August 1st, program changes will include removing the age criteria, expanding eligibility, and introducing a new annual $3,500 …
B.C. secondary school students and recent graduates will soon have access to paid work placements through the new Youth in Manufacturing Initiative. Starting in fall 2023, this initiative will provide funding for as many as 500 youth work placements in many of B.C.’s diverse manufacturing industries. In addition to paid work experience and industry-recognized training, …
The program guides for Work Experience (WEX) and Youth Work in Trades (WRK) have been updated to reflect important policy changes and clarifications related to Work Experience programming, and the current names of the Ministry of Education and Child Care and SkilledTradesBC. Both guides have also been translated into French. More details on these changes are available in this attachment.
