Faculty at Vancouver Island University went on strike Thursday morning, and Langara College faculty could be next. Read more…

A Gulf Island land conservancy has raised more than half the funds needed to purchase land for a unique long-stay, nature-study centre on Galiano Island.

The centre, a project of the Galiano Conservancy Association, will allow city kids from the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island to connect with nature through multi-day learning programs. Read more…

NDP leadership candidate Mike Farnworth released the details behind his proposed provincial education commission on Friday, but at least one Liberal leadership candidate doesn't see the point in having a commission when it's already clear what the problems the B.C. education system faces. Read more…

Former BC Federation of Teachers President Jinny Sims has thrown her name into the running for the federal New Democratic Party nomination in the riding of Newton-North Delta in anticipation of an upcoming federal election. Read more…

The Vancouver-based university has approved a new four-year degree program focused on teaching the next generation of farmers. Read more…

BCTF president Susan Lambert today dismissed the Fraser Institute's school rankings as "worthless," adding that "they're just a way of beating up on the disadvantaged." Read more…

The Vancouver School Board says the city's Aboriginal community has made clear their desire for their own school instead of the board proposed mini-school at Britannia Secondary. Read more…

Langley School Board swore in its seventh and final trustee Tuesday night, but has decided to keep its rotating chair schedule instead of appointing a chair or vice chair. It's a move that the Langley Teacher Association predicts will not be "creating the kind of stability and strong leadership that the community needs at this time." Read more…

Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid has taken the fight over the Foundation Skills Assessments (FSAs) to the editorial pages of the Vancouver Sun, accusing the BC Teachers Federation of playing politics by asking parents to remove their children from the tests. Read more…

New study from the C.D. Howe Institute shows British Columbia has the lowest dropout rates in the country, but boys, some immigrants, and First Nations are still above the national average for not completing high school. Read more…

Kevin Falcon’s merit pay proposal for teachers has been met with much derision, but it’s found at least one fan in Delta School Board Chair Dale Saip. Read more…

Charles Ungerleider believes Kevin Falcon deserves credit for caring about the province’s education system by suggesting a merit pay system for teachers, even if the former deputy minister of education thinks the plan will never work. Read more…

B.C. Schools are closed for the winter break, but at least two school boards didn’t sign off with wishes of good tidings and cheer for all members: both the Kootenay-Columbia and Comox Valley school boards have trustees publicly calling for their chairs to step down. Read more…

Report finds regulatory body is "dysfunctional" and not perceived to be independent of the BC Teachers Federation. Read more…

After months of consultations, and even more of provincial government and school board bickering, the Vancouver School Board’s Vision Vancouver trustees have announced their decision against any school closures in the district. Read more…

Canadian children in poor families are suffering from a widening inequality gap, according to a UNICEF report published December 3. But Canada can take measures to improve their future. Read more…

First Call, a coalition of child and youth advocacy groups in B.C., has emailed an open letter to Premier Gordon Campbell criticizing him for inviting public consultations on next year’s budgeting and then tossing out that process to make a snap announcement of a 15 per cent income tax cut. Read more…

The province’s Representative for Children and Youth repeated her call for a national children’s commissioner to advocate on the behalf of at-risk Canadian children, Aboriginal children in particular, yesterday when she gave the Dr. Richard Splane Lecture in Social Policy at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus. Read more…

Some B.C. schools, hospitals, and universities buildings will receive $2.8 million in funding for solar-powered water heating technology, which the B.C. government claims will help make this province the only region in North America with a carbon-neutral public sector by the end of this year. Read more…

The B.C. Teachers’ Federation wasted no time in attacking Premier Campbell's Wednesday night speech to the province. BCTF president Susan Lambert said, “Teachers will be disappointed with the lack of substance”: Read more…