A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 20, 1998

Adult basic education to be free

MORE THAN &50 Adult Basic Ed-
ucalion students attending Northwest
Community Colleges have cause to
celebrate,

The provincial goverment an-
nounced May 13 that tuition fees for
all Adult Basic Education courses —
high school completion courses — at
post-secondary institutions will be
eliminated July, 1.

“This is a big event for us,’ said
Larry Bolingbroke, coordinator of
NWCC’s Career and College Prep in
the central region. ‘“We've been
pushing for this for the past 20 years.
We're really pleased about it.”

Career. and College Prep is an Adult
Basic Education program offered at
most NWCC campuses, including

James Robinson

Challenge
to treaty
gets date
in court

A COURT ACTION aimed
at halling negotiation of a
Nisga’a treaty will - go
ahead, say the plaintiffs..

Kincolith natives James
Robinson and Frank Barton
say they now have a court
date in late July for their
challenge of the Nisga’a
Tribal Council’s authority to
negotiate a treaty,

Robinson said a day and a
half has been set aside in
B.C, Supreme Court in
Kamloops to hear argu-
ments.

The pair are challenging
their own leaders because
they say key traditional
lands surrounding their vil-
lage of Kincolith are being
. cut out of the Nisga’a treaty,

The case contends that the
tribal council did not follow
its own niles in giving
notice of and holding a vote
on the agreement-in-
principle signed two years
ago.

Barton and Robinson have
“been even more vocal about
the case since the Dec. it
Delgamuukw decision of the
Supreme Court of Canada,

Some Nisga’a have been
saylng their leaders are ne-
gotiating @ treaty that gives
away too much in light of
that ruling.

Robinson attended the
recent Nisga’a Tribal Coun-

‘cil convention and said he
received a great deal of sup-
port there,

“My stance is even
Stronger now with the belie£
that I’m doing the right
thing,’’ Robinson said.

Robinson said it’s possible
the court challenge could
end up delaying a trealy and
actually giving Nisga’a
leaders: more flexibility in
negotiating a better deal.

Tribal council president
Joe Gosnell told those pres-
ent at the convention they
will be able to vote on the
final treaty — and send
whatever message they want
to send — at that time.

“He basicallly pleaded to
our people ‘let us finish
what we've started and then
you can vole on it’,’’
Robinson said. ‘‘f don’t
think ithey’re even sure
which way the vote is going
to g0,””

One huge problem,
Robinson added, is the $40
million bill the Nispa’s have
Tung up negotiating the
treaty so far.

. Those costs — paid by the
federal government — are
considered a loan that has to
be repaid. It’s to be
deducted from the approxi-
mately $200 million set out
in the treaty settlement.

“'There’s $40 million that
has to be paid from some-
where,’ Robinson said. ‘If
there's no deal where does
that money come from???

Terrace, Prince Rupert, Greenville,

Kitimat, Hazelton, Smithers and
Houston.
The program helps students gain

skills and credits they need to get into
other coileges or universitics or direcl-
ly into a job,

Students in the program can take
courses from a grade S level to a
grade 12 level in a wide variety of
atcas including English, mathematics,
biology, chemistry, physics, social
sciences, computer studies, plus edu-
cation and career planning.

Courses are available either in

scheduled classes or on an individual

self-paced basis where st-dents can

work through at their own speed.
‘The Northwest region has one of

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the Jowest rates of high school com-
pletion in the province,’ said Beth
Davies, Northwest Community Col-
lege President. ‘The government has
recognized thal tuition fees are a
major barrier for many adult students
who need to complete courses that
will prepare them for the rest of their
lives.”?

Davies said the adult education
courses at all NWCC campuses
brought in about $400,000, The col-
lege will be reimbursed for the money
they will lose.

This year, there are more than 850
Adult Basic Education students at var-
ious campuses and the average full
time student pays $1,100 in tuition
fees for nine months.

A Special Thanks
To The

Terrace Ladies’
Press Club

Including the Men’s Auxillary for
their generous delivery of BC
Prawns to “Members at Large”.

“TLPC Community Service Coast Th Coast”

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