Tag Archives: Education
School District 73 ups hygiene practices, while keeping tabs on COVID-19 development
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 is keeping a close eye on how the COVID-19 situation is developing, and has plans in place in case the virus spreads further. At this time, Assistant Superintendent of El...
Mar 04, 2020 (File photo - Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops students using pink to promote kindness
KAMLOOPS - Since the first anti-bullying Pink Shirt Day in 2007, many school-aged kids in Canada have become aware of the lessons, and message behind the coloured shirts. Westsyde Elementary Grade 4 t...
Feb 26, 2020 Students posing in their pink themed Anti-Bullying Day photobooth at Westsyde Elementary School. (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Kamloops RCMP engage with post-secondary students on the subject of pipeline protests
KAMLOOPS - It's a complicated issue, with no clear solution. The conflict between the Wet'suwet'en and Coastal GasLink has now spilled far beyond the path of the pipeline, grinding rail traffic to a h...
Feb 26, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Secondary school girls learn about career opportunities from women in a variety of industries
KAMLOOPS - High school aged girls had the opportunity to hear from a number of women with careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) today (Feb. 21). Open Doors in STEAM took p...
Feb 21, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
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
