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Funding Available for Early Childhood Educators

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Are you an Early Childhood Educator who has been out of the field for at least two years? Would $5000 make you consider returning to the field?

On January 1, 2008 the Province of British Columbia introduced The Early Childhood Educator Incentive Grants Program in the hopes of alleviating the growing shortage of licensed child care providers in this province. Full and part-time employees can receive up to $2500 at the end of each year for their first two years of re-employment in a licensed facility. Act now, as the incentive program is only available to the first 100 eligible applicants.

Are you a new graduate of an ECE program? ECE’s who graduated in 2007 or who will be graduating in 2008 are eligible for up to $2500 toward outstanding B.C. Student Loans. New ECE’s may receive up to $1250 after each of the first and second years of employment in a licensed facility.

For more information on these programs, visit the Government of B.C. Website

If you love working with children, don’t miss this exciting opportunity.

At The Career Centre there have been 8-10 postings for Early Childhood Educators and just as many for experienced Child Care providers in the last six months

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Meeting the Trades Training Demand

Monday, September 10th, 2007

The demand for more skilled trades people is increasing, so much so that recently the Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell has announced the expansion of the BC student loan forgiveness program to include technology education teachers.

“Students who graduate on or after July 1, 2007 as technical education teachers are eligible for the loan forgiveness program. Their BC student loan debts will be reduced by one third for each of the three years they work in a high demand area of the province.”

Technical education teachers instruct in the programs such as welding, carpentry, and auto repair in high schools across BC. BCIT and Okanagan College are two institutions that work in conjunction with UBC in providing training to be eligible to be a Trades and Technology teacher.

What is a high demand area of the province? I checked the Student Aid Website and basically any areas that are not considered urban are in high demand, there is a list of non-eligible communities. That means if you find employment in Nanaimo you are not eligible for the program. However, not listed is Parksville, Courtenay, Port Alberni and other northern island communities.

“Since the loan forgiveness program started in 2001, 12 professions have been included in fields such as medicine, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. Recently, teachers for the visually impaired, teachers for the deaf and hard of hearing, and school psychologists were also included.”

For more information on the student loan forgiveness program check out the Student Aid Website.

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