Schools across British Columbia desperately need French teachers and the province is turning its recruitment efforts across the ocean. 

The B.C. Education Ministry is sending a delegation to Europe next week, from April 3 to 6, with hopes of signing government-to-government agreements with France, Belgium and the Netherlands to promote teacher mobility and exchanges.

“There is a shortage of French teachers in almost every community around the province,” said Glyn Lewis, executive director of the B.C.-Yukon Branch of Canadian Parents for