Future Jobs and Education:  Province Report 11 with Fred Latremouille 1982
Channel: BC History
Date: 2021-03-10

This episode of the series from 1982 focuses on the need to train people in BC for all the coming jobs.   Of all of these short films, this is by far the most propagandist one. 

I lived through this era, I was the right age to be one of the "100,000" British Columbians to get an education for the future.   What I remember is the government massively cutting funding to post-secondary education and tuition rising 100% in 3 years.   The government also cut almost all financial aid to students.  The government even closed the only university in BC not located in the southwest of the province.   

Education in the early 1980s was certainly not any sort of priority for the government.