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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016 Your community. Your stories.
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Int’l students bolster the SD43 budget Close to 1,800 students expected to enroll this fall DIANE STRANDBERG Tri-CiTy News
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Robert McGregor, executive director of the Institute of Urban Ecology, in the Sol (Sustainability, Outreach and Learning) Garden at the Coquitlam campus of Douglas College. A grand opening of the teaching and learning garden will be held Monday, June 20 from 4 to 6 p.m. on the south side of the campus, off of Pinetree Way. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Douglas College garage and on Pinetree Way. Please see story on page 19.
Fee-paying foreign students continue to flock to School District 43 despite changes in B.C.’s education system that will reduce the number of high school exams and make learning more personal to student needs. As many as 1,700 international education students are enrolled in SD43 schools, bringing in a record $27.8 million into the district, and 1,800 foreign students are expected to enroll in the fall, making the program the largest in Canada.
And while some might expect that the streamlining of provincial exams and possible changes GARTLAND to how students are graded as well as more flexible learning styles to dissuade some international students from enrolling, that does not appear to be the case. Superintendent Patricia Gartland, who started the international education program in 1999, said families from countries such as China and Korea are not put off by the new curriculum. see CURRICULUM, page 10
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