It’s January and the kids are back to school, but what about you? The new year is a great time to think about learning something new, improving your career prospects, taking up a new skill, or just learning for the fun of it. UFV’s Continuing Studies division offers hundreds of courses and several programs for […]
Imagine entering your first year of university with a few credits already under your belt. Thanks to a partnership between the University of the Fraser Valley and the Fraser Cascade School District, Agassiz secondary school students are able to try university courses, earn actual credits, and get a taste of post-secondary education while still in […]
On Monday, BC’s Minister of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology John Yap chose Abbotsford Community Services as the location to announce $2.4 million to support 68 projects across the province in 2012-13, under the Community Adult Literacy Program (CALP). One of the projects is a partnership between the University of the Fraser Valley and Abbotsford […]
The Métis are a distinct Aboriginal people with North American Indian-European descent. The Métis played an instrumental role in the shaping of Canada and work tirelessly to share their culture, music, traditions, and knowledge of the environment with their fellow Canadians. Please join our UFV students, faculty and staff to celebrate Métis Day awareness, which […]
The Teacher Education program has arrived in Abbotsford! The Teacher Education program at UFV is a post-degree program designed to turn students into teachers. The students enrolled in the program form a cohort that learns and studies together, and with a year’s worth of full-time study will become familiar with and prepared for K-12 curriculum […]
The paralegal diploma program at the University of the Fraser Valley has been on hiatus since 2009, but thanks to growing interest in the field and the attention of dedicated instructor Terry Han, it is currently accepting applications and will be up and running for the fall semester. Han has taught legal administrative assistant […]
Once you’ve engineered a bike that changed the face of mountain biking in Canada, managed a successful bike manufacturing company, and been inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, what’s left to do? Plenty, if you’re Paul Brodie. As founder of Brodie Bikes and innovator of the first ‘sloping-top tube-frame’ mountain bike, the guy […]
Continuing Education (now Continuing Studies) has been an integral part of UFV since we were founded in 1974. If fact the first UFV employees were continuing education planners seconded from the school districts. Continuing Studies director Cheryl Isaac invited past and current CE colleagues to tour the new UFV Clearbrook Centre on Sunday, April 22. […]
If you take a Continuing Studies course from the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, chances are that it will be at UFV’s newest location. UFV Continuing Studies has moved from the Marshall Road annex to a newly renovated space on the bottom floor of the Clearbrook library. The Clearbrook centre provides 15,000 square […]
