French Teacher. Image credit: Unsplash/Romain Gal
Vancouver/CMEDIA: Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, along with Rachna Singh, British Columbia Minister of Education and Child Care, jointly announced more than $13.5 million in funding to help train, recruit, and retain French teachers in British Columbia keeping with the importance of Canada’s two official languages.
Keeping in mind that bilingualism unites us with other places in the world, the Government of Canada and the Government of British Colombia are each providing $6,793,854 to support in providing more opportunities for youth to learn in French.
$2,095,000 would be provided specifically by the Government of Canada to the Government of British Columbia to facilitate cross-governmental collaborations including addion of seats to French teacher training programs at postsecondary institutions, support the coordination of immigration of French teachers, and improve the French teacher international certification process and teacher workforce data collection.
On the other hand, the Government of British Columbia will be investing $4,708,944 in operational grants for the province’s public school districts tied to recruitment and retention activities and for public universities to support French teacher education programs.
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