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Education in British Columbia comprises public and private primary and secondary schools throughout the province. Like most other provinces in Canada, education is compulsory from ages 6–16 (grades 1–10), although the vast majority of students remain in school until they graduate from high school at the age of 18.
The Schools Act recognizes a right to instruction in French for the official language minority (1988) and right of Francophones to manage their own schools (1993). [16] Laws may be drafted solely in English and there is no legal requirement that they be translated into French. French may be used orally in all provincial courts in Alberta.
In 1990, the Social Credit Vander Zalm government of British Columbia was under pressure from the NDP opposition to release flight logs regarding use of the government airplane fleet. [4] The fleet was “intended for use mostly as an air ambulance service” but was also “available for use by ministers and senior civil servants when not ...
The Peter A. Allard School of Law (abbreviated as Allard Law) is the law school of the University of British Columbia. [3] The faculty offers the Juris Doctor degree. The faculty features courses on business law, tax law, environmental and natural resource law, indigenous law, Pacific Rim issues, and feminist legal theory.
British Columbia is the only province of Canada to have such an act; the constitutions of other provinces are made up of a diffuse number of sources. [1] Despite this, even the Constitution Act is not truly exhaustive, as certain aspects of the province's constitution are not included in it.
The composition of the Commons, under Section 37, consists of 308 members: 106 for Ontario, 75 for Quebec, 11 for Nova Scotia, 10 for New Brunswick, 14 for Manitoba, 36 for British Columbia, 4 for Prince Edward Island, 28 for Alberta, 14 for Saskatchewan, 7 for Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 for Yukon, 1 for the Northwest Territories, and 1 for ...
Many school districts were in existence prior to British Columbia joining Canada in 1871. Some districts were just single schools or even one teacher. Traditionally school districts in British Columbia were either municipal, which were named after the municipality such as Vancouver or Victoria, or rural and given a regional name.
Higher education in British Columbia started in 1890 with the first attempt by the British Columbia government to establish a provincial university, An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia that established the first convocation of the "one university for the whole of British Columbia for the purpose of raising the standard of higher education in the Province, and of enabling all ...