The British Columbia Institute of Technology, is a public polytechnic institution of higher education. The post-secondary institute has five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region, with its main campus in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. There is also the Aerospace Technology Campus in Richmond, the Marine Campus in the City of North Vancouver, Downtown campus in Vancouver, and Annacis Island Campus in Delta. It is provincially chartered through legislation in the College and Institute Act. The school operates as a vocational and technical school, offering apprenticeships for the skilled trades and diplomas and degrees in vocational education for skilled technicians and workers in professions such as engineering, accountancy, business administration, nursing, medicine, architecture, and law.
Yeungnam University College is a technical college located in Nam-gu, Daegu, South Korea. It offers two-, three-, and four- year degree programs in a variety of technical fields, including those of computers, information technology, and industrial machinery. As of 2004, the student body numbers about 5,000 students. About 20% of those students are full-time workers who study at night.
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, known as ECU, is a public post-secondary art school and university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1925 as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, as the first degree-granting institution in British Columbia created specifically for students of both the visual and performing arts. It was named after the Canadian artist Emily Carr in 1978.
Jill Krop is a Canadian journalist and broadcaster. Krop is News Director and Station Manager for Global BC, Global BC anchor and local radio personality.
Brent Charleton, CFA, is a Canadian businessman and former basketball player who currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer for an industrial technology company called EnWave Corporation.
Dr. Charles Best Secondary School is a co-educational public high school located in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The school is named for Canadian physician Charles Best, one of the researchers responsible for the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes. The school opened on March 22, 1971, as a junior secondary school serving students in Grades 8 through 10, and became a full secondary school in 2000.
Rutland Senior Secondary School (RSS) is part of School District 23 Central Okanagan (SD#23) in Kelowna, British Columbia. It is located off Rutland Road, sharing a lot with Rutland Middle School (RMS). It is a comprehensive high school offering a wide array of academic programs including Advanced Placement (AP), British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) dual credit courses, and the Secondary School Apprenticeship program.
Dr. Tony Knowles was the President of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). A chemist by training, Knowles has been awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.
Great Northern Way Campus Ltd (GNWC) is a private limited company and educational enterprise located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the offspring of a consortium of four local academic institutions that has attracted significant public and private funding. The company is the trustee of the Great Northern Way Campus Trust, whose stated purpose is to create "a centre of convergence for arts and culture, digital media and the environment." At present, it manages a Master's degree in Digital Media, which admitted its first students in the Fall of 2007.
Mark Angelo, is a Canadian river conservationist, writer, speaker, teacher and paddler. He founded and is the chair of BC Rivers Day and World Rivers Day. In 2009, Angelo was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Rivers Institute at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) Prior to that, he was the long-time head of the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program at BCIT. Angelo has received the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada in recognition of his river conservation efforts. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University for his river conservation work both locally and globally.
Shawn A-in-chut Atleo is a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.
Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts) is a private post-secondary school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada founded in 1995. VanArts offers one-year diploma programs for the visual, media and performing arts plus degree pathways with university partners.
Hassan Farhangi is the director of the Smart Microgrid Applied Research Team (SMART) at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Burnaby, Canada, and an adjunct professor at the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. He is known for his work in the development of Canada's first smart microgrid on the BCIT campus, which is regarded as one of the first campus-based smart microgrids built in Canada. Formerly, he was a Dean and Professor of Information Technology at the Technical University of British Columbia.
Polytechnics Canada is a national association of Canada’s leading colleges, polytechnics and institutes of technology. With members located in Canada’s key economic regions. Polytechnics Canada is the voice of institutions with a common focus on advanced technical and technological education. In 2016/2017, the association's thirteen members engaged over 11,850 students in applied research, trained over 45,000 apprentices, and provided work-integrated learning opportunities for 63% of all programs across a wide range of credentials.
The Vancouver Balloholics are an independent Canadian semi-professional basketball team. They started play in the 2014–15 season as a member of the American Basketball Association (ABA). They played in the league's Pacific Northwest Division. The Balloholics played their home games at the British Columbia Institute of Technology BCIT Gymnasium in Burnaby, British Columbia. In 2017 the team became an independent travelling team and play teams from other parts of Canada, United States and China.
Gregory Marquette is a Canadian film director.
Graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), he began his career in television journalism and thereafter series drama and television variety. He later formed the successful film production company Polaris Entertainment Corporation.
He was nominated in 2012 at SOHO International Film Festival for Genius on Hold.
The BCIT School of Business is a business school within the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). In 1965, the School of Business was founded and has campuses located in Burnaby and downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.
Kathy Kinloch is a Canadian executive who is President of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and has received awards for being one of the most influential women in the province's business sector. In 2016, Kathy was named a Woman of Distinction by the YWCA Metro Vancouver and one of Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women awarded by WXN, the Women's Executive Network. She was also recognized in 2015 by BC Business as one of the 50 most influential women in British Columbia; by Vancouver Magazine on the top 50 Power list.
Paula Brown is a Canadian science researcher, currently at British Columbia Institute of Technology. She is the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Phytoanalytics. In this position, she investigates the large range of chemical products made by plants, included how they are synthesized, regulated, and allocated within the tissues of plants, details of their extraction, as well as their role in plant and human health.
