#bceducation — Public Fediverse posts

Global News BC: B.C. Conservative leader criticized for comparing parental rights to residential schools https://globalnews.ca/news/10000417/bc-conservative-parental-rights-residential-schools/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #SexualOrientationandGenderIdentity #ConservativePartyofB.C. #BCeducation #BCpolitics #JohnRustad #Education #Politics #SOGI123 #Canada

Global News BC: ‘Slipping through the cracks’: Teacher shortage mars first weeks in some B.C. schools https://globalnews.ca/news/9984033/teacher-shortage-affects-school-year-start-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #CoquitlamSchoolDistrict #MinistryOfEducation #bcteachershortage #PortCoquitlamNews #PortCoquitlam #BCeducation #BCteachers #Education

Global News BC: ‘Slap in the face’: Permission withdrawn for Khalistan vote to be held at B.C. school https://globalnews.ca/news/9942802/khalistan-referendum-surrey-school-district/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCministryofeducationandchildcare #TamanawisSecondarySchool #SurreySchoolDistrict #Punjabiindependence #HardeepSinghNijjar #Surreyschools #BCeducation #Education #Khalistan #Politics #BcSikhs #India

Global News BC: ‘Getting worse’: Unions worried over possible B.C. teacher shortage ahead of school year https://globalnews.ca/news/9928937/unions-worried-bc-teacher-shortage/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCTeachersFederation #Surreyschoolshortage #bcteachershortage #BCeducation #RachnaSingh #BCteachers #Education #BCschools #BCTF

#UBC designed a #NewFont that allows characters from #Musqueam #Indigenous #language to be typed on computers & match formal institutional #font used on UBC documents/signs.
Most characters in Musqueam language's - #hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ - pronounced HUN-kuh-mee-num - aren't available on English language keyboard.

The new font is also capable of #typesetting the language of the #Syilx, a #FirstNation located in the same area as UBC's #Okanagan campus

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6868283

#NativeLanguages #BCEducation