A Terrace Review —- Wednesday, November 27, 1991

Group with giant mandate

_A little-known group of people
engaged in a massive undertak-
ing surfaced in Terrace last
week to introduce their project
to a group of about 50 people
and ask for their participation.

The B.C. Human Resources
Development Project was
launched in February of this
year, broke into nine committees
to establish their initial broad
objectives, and are now touring
the province to solicit public
involvement. Paul Gallagher, the
project director, described it this
way:

"The B.C. Human Resource
Development Project grew out of
the recognition of change. The
direction of the economy has
gone toward a global scale, there
are questions of broad signifi-
cance on the economic develop-

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ment of the country and the
province. But there are also a
variety of issues that are non-
economical but nonetheless
critical to our society.

"The question is, what is the
goal of human development?
And how do we prepare the next
generation?"

Gallagher indicted that the
project is largely, but not entire-
ly, addressing that question to
the entire formal and non-formal
education system of B.C. The
group assembled in the Inn of
the West banquet room was
asked to review the project's
work to date, then indicate
whether the project committees
had identified the issues correct-
ly. They broke into small study
groups and each participant was
given a form for responses.

Starting at 9 a.m.

at the
Petro Canada Station
on Lakelse Aveune

The issues the group studied.
included the relation of work-
based training to public educa- [a
tion, the failure of apprentice-
ship system, improving the
quantity and quality of educa. 7%

tion, training’ and re-training, | i

and establishing a means of
making informal learning, the
way in which most people learn
most of what they know, some-
thing of widely accepted value,
what one BCHRD project repre- Bi
sentative called "credentialling &
for what people learn on their
own". —
Gallagher told the group that
the massive edifice of public
education in B.C. is in fact an
uncoordinated jumble of struc-
tures. The project’s task is to
make those structures fit

Paul Gallagher: We tinker
with this system, but do we
really believe in it?

number of solutions.

agreement. that these are the
issues, and there are a limited
We're .
looking for a broad consensus on

ks local views

a - that."

The project has until March
1993 to finish its work. It will
take the committee reports done
to date and the public reaction to
those, forming a report that will
be issued in time for further
public policy sessions in March
of next year. The subject of
those sessions will be “areas
where there is no clear agree-
ment”, Gallagher said. There is
to be a further report on that
issued at the beginning of Sep-
tember 1992.

When the project ends the
following March, Gallagher said,
the work will be finished but a
new process will be in place.

together and make them aware
of one another. "How do we
resolve these issues?" he asked.
"Then we can integrate and
create a system."

In an interview after the
session, Gallagher said, "We
need to have a system that fits
together and encourages rather
than prevents. We need to ques-

tion our values. What is the
value of the existing structure?
It’s there, and we keep tinkering
with it, but does it really reflect
our values? Do we really believe
in it?"
Gallagher described the
BCHRD as “huge project", but
he appeared to believe it was
inevitable. "There is a growing

The meeting in Terrace was
sponsored by the Terrace and
District Chamber of Commerce.
The B.C. Human Resource
Development Project secretariat
can be contacted at 1-775-0285.

Local realtors
get national

THANK YOU |

To all the individuals and organizations who
helped in my campaign as Liberal candidate in the
recent provincial election. I would particularly like
to acknowledge the media, the schools and North-
‘west Community College.

Your efforts were very much appreciated. The
Noteworthy Liberal vote in this riding were grate-
fully recognized in letters from Liberal Party leader

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recognition

Realty World-Lakelse of Ter-
race has been awarded a prize
for being the third most produc-
tive office per agent in a nation-
wide real estate chain.

The local office received the
prize at the 14th annual Realty
World-Canada convention in
Calgary at the.end of October.
Verne Ferguson, owner of the
Terrace operation, credited his
staff, "a great team of hard-
working, dedicated pro-
fessionals", for the office’s
success. Realty World-Lakelse
was competing against 200 other
branches of the organization for

| the award,