Tag Archives: Education
School District 73 looking forward to educational funding laid out in BC Budget
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 is hoping the BC Government's recently announced budget with $2.8 billion allocated to replace, renovate, or expand K-12 schools will include facilities in Kamloops. To g...
Feb 19, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kamloops Thompson School District)
BC Access Grant answers the call of post-secondary students
KAMLOOPS - College and University students across the province have been calling for an upfront, needs-based grant program for years- and now they have one. The BC Access Grant was announced in the Pr...
Feb 19, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
TRU team wins ethics challenge
KAMLOOPS - A team from Thompson Rivers University (TRU) successfully defended its CFA Societies Provincial Ethics Challenge. It beat out teams from the University of B.C. and the University of Victori...
Feb 12, 2020 TRU CFA Societies Ethics Challenge team — from left: Julia Clapp, Guylene Shaw, Randall K. Kimmel, PhD, associate professor of finance (faculty advisor), Alokesh Barai, Lakshmi Bhavani Chintala, and Sa’adiy Bello Mikailu.
SD73 students create virtual reality experience
KAMLOOPS - The idea of virtual reality has been around for several decades, and has a wide variety of applications. From education, training simulators, and entertainment, the possibilities for VR wil...
Feb 10, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
TRU rock history course co-taught by former Stones manager living up to the hype
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University's newest instructor has been bringing in a new level of learning interest for students taking the Rock Dreams course. Now a few weeks deep into the winter semeste...
Feb 07, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Alberta panel suggests schools 'balance' lessons about climate change, oilsands
CALGARY - Alberta's education minister is endorsing a panel report that recommends school children learn all views about climate change along with the value of the province's oil and gas sector. Adria...
Jan 29, 2020
ABC Family Literacy Day kicks off Unplug and Play Week in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - ABC Family Literacy Day has been kicking off Interior Savings Unplug and Play Family Literacy Week in Kamloops for the past nine years. On Saturday, the theme of this year's Family Literacy...
Jan 27, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
New Heights Autism Support Society helps families overcome ASD difficulties
KAMLOOPS - According to Autism BC, one in every 51 children between the ages of six and 18 have Autism Spectrum Disorder. Here in Kamloops, there are several service providers who help families who ha...
Jan 21, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
SD73 Board of Education hears details on Parkcrest Elementary Fire
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 will be reviewing its reporting processes as part of recommendations given by Kamloops Fire Rescue following the fire at Parkcrest Elementary School on Sep. 5, 2019. Acco...
Jan 14, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops students learn a lesson in problem-solving through robotics class
KAMLOOPS - Technology is ever evolving and School District 73 is trying to keep up by teaching students how to use technology in new and creative ways. Several classes across the district have been le...
Jan 10, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
