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In March of last year, the province contributed $440,000 toward electric vehicle maintenance training at post-secondary institutions, and Camosun College is among the first four schools in the province to offer this training. The pilot courses began in mid-November of 2021. They ran for a week, with an additional six hours of online work. Each […]

Camosun College recently received a $500,000 grant from Colleges and Institutes Canada through the Global Skills Opportunity (GSO) program, which will allow students to experience other cultures through a study-abroad program. In addition to the GSO Grant, Camosun has received a further $90,000 through the One World Scholarship from the Irving K. Barber British Columbia […]

Students in Camosun College’s Criminal Justice program finished off the fall 2021 semester by collecting a classroom-sized clothing donation for Our Place. The students gathered donations from all over Victoria, which, once delivered, were all re-homed within days.  Second-year student Sean Eversfield says that “basically everyone” in the second year of the Criminal Justice program […]

PLATO Testing, Canada’s only Indigenous-staffed and Indigenous-led software testing company, recently launched its Indigenous Software Tester Training Course in Victoria for the first time. The company, based in New Brunswick, offers the program to Indigenous people in other cities across Canada and is now offering it at the Camosun Coastal Centre (there is no connection […]