Early Childhood Educator, Now Eligible for BCPNP Skills Immigration (2022/03)

Quick Facts:

More than $2 million of Early Learning and Child Care Agreement funding supported bursaries for the winter 2022 semester, and as much as $2.7 million has been disbursed to summer 2022 semester students.
Bursaries are a key tool to support the Province’s ECE Recruitment and Retention Strategy to meet existing and future workforce demands for this rewarding and in-demand career.
Through federal and provincial investments, British Columbia has surpassed 30,500 new child care spaces funded since the launch of ChildCareBC.
The Government of Canada made a transformative investment to build a Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system in partnership with provincial, territorial and Indigenous partners. This includes a historic federal investment of $3.2 billion for British Columbia.

Learn More:

For more information and to apply for the ECE Support Fund, visit: https://www.ecebc.ca/ece-education-support-fund

For more information and to read the Early Care and Learning Recruitment and Retention Strategy, visit: www.gov.bc.ca/childcare/ecestrategy

For more information about the ECE dual credit program, visit: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022ECC0049-001215

For more information about ChildCareBC, visit: www.gov.bc.ca/childcare

For more information about the Canada-British Columbia Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, visit: www.canada.ca/child-care

A backgrounder follows.

Public post-secondary institutions with 176 additional early childhood educator (ECE) spaces in B.C.:

Capilano University (in partnership with Métis Nation BC and Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Lower Mainland – 50 student spaces;
Capilano University, Sunshine Coast – 40 student spaces;
College of New Caledonia – 10 additional student spaces;
College of The Rockies – 22 additional student spaces;
Langara College – 30 additional student spaces;
Okanagan College – 12 additional student spaces; and
Selkirk College – 12 additional student spaces.

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