Coquitlam - Education

Education

Coquitlam is served by School District 43 Coquitlam, and offers four public secondary schools, several more middle schools, and dozens of elementary schools. Francophone education in the Tri-Cities is offered by Conseil Scolaire Francophone de la Colombie-Britannique.

Coquitlam Town Centre is home to the 4,000-student David Lam Campus of Douglas College, which offers university transfer, career-training and academic-upgrading programs. Therapeutic Recreation, Hotel and Restaurant Management, and Animal Health Technology programs are housed in the original main campus building. The $39 million Health Sciences Centre opened in 2008, with state-of-the-art facilities for Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing and other health-career programs.

There are two major universities, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, located in the nearby municipalities. The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in neighbouring Burnaby provides polytechnic education and grants degrees in several fields. Vancouver is also home to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the Vancouver Film School.

The Coquitlam Public Library has two branches: City Centre and Poirier. The library has a collection of over 240,000 items, and an annual budget of over $4 million.

Schools in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Belcarra and Anmore, British Columbia

Secondary schools	Centennial Dr. Charles Best Gleneagle Heritage Woods Pinetree Port Moody Riverside Terry Fox

Middle or junior high schools	Banting Citadel Como Lake Hillcrest Kwayhquitlum Maillard Maple Creek Minnekhada Montgomery Moody Pitt River Scott Creek Summit

Primary or elementary schools	Alderson Aspenwood Baker Drive Birchland Blakeburn Bramblewood Cape Horn Castle Park Cedar Drive Central College Park Coquitlam River Eagle Ridge Glen Glenayre Hampton Park Harbour View Hazel Trembath Heritage Mountain Irvine James Park Kilmer Leigh Lord Baden-Powell Mary Hill Meadowbrook Miller Park Millside Moody Mountain Meadows Mountain View Mundy Road Nestor Panorama Heights Parkland Pinetree Way Pleasantside Porter Street R.C. MacDonald Ranch Park Riverview Park Rochester Roy Stibbs Seaview Vanier Walton Westwood

Private schools	Archbishop Carney Our Lady of the Assumption Our Lady of Fatima Queen of All Saints Traditional Learning Academy

Famous quotes containing the word education:

“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)

“Every day care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)

“If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?—not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)