Earn while you learn with the work-integrated early childhood education program
Are you working as an early childhood educator assistant and looking to grow your career? VIU offers a unique ECEC Work-Integrated Learning (ECEC-WIL) program so you can become a qualified early childhood educator while still working.
Follow your heart on your learning journey
Courtney Dubyna’s love of educating children blossomed when she began helping out in a small family daycare she attended as a child. She decided to become an educator and enrolled in Vancouver Island University’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) program.
Ready to put her education into practice: Timilehin Maryam Olayiwola
For Timilehin Maryam Olayiwola, who is graduating this June from VIU’s Early Childhood Education and Care program, VIU has felt like home because of the in-depth interactions she had with profs and other students, as well as having friends and family studying alongside her. After she represents the Faculty of Health and Health Services as valedictorian, she is ready to put what she learned at VIU into practice.