16 Terrace Review: — Wednesday. October 2, 1991 NWCC distance » education eyed by international group Education authorities from Malaysia, Kenya and Sierra Leone were at Northwest Community - College last week ta garner ideas from the regional operation that they might apply to education situations in their home countries. The delegates were guided through the facilities by NWCC staff ' members Larissa Tarwick and Betty Kofoed. by Betty Barton Last week Northwest Community ' College hosted three visitors (from a group of 11) sponsored by the Commonwealth of Learning to tour B.C. advanced education and dis- tance learning facilities. Abu Amin from the Educational Technology Division of the Minis- try of Education, Malaysia; Gabriel Muita, head of the Educational Media Service Division, Institute of Education, Kenya; and Brima Konteh, Principal Education Officer, Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Sports, Sierra Leone, visited the northwest to get a first-hand look at a regional college and its distance learning programs. Larissa Tarwick of NWCC says of their visit, "We have a better idea of what resource materials to send them now that College awards 1991: entrance scholarships A number of students were pres- ented with Northwest Community College Entrance Scholarship awards at the various campuses in the college region Sept. 17. Total value of the scholarships is $21,000. -The NWCC entrance scholarships were awarded to recent secondary school graduates from within the college region, going to students with high academic standing who enrot in Northwest College Univer- sity Credit, career, or Trades Training Full-time programs. Of the 47 presentations, 16 were from Terrace. Thirty-six of the students will be attending the Terrace cam- pus. One of the recipients, Nicole Collison, was awarded the Canada .. Scholarship. Nicole is a Caledonia " graduate, and now registered in the university program at the Terrace AEA a = city of Teroce| Le | SANITARY campus of Northwest Community College. The Govemor General’s Colle- giate Bronze medal was won by Dave Andrew, a Business Admin- istration Diploma student in Ter- race. This award goes to the stu- dent who achieves the highest academic standing in a diploma- level post secondary programme. Their average must be 80 percent or better and Dave was considered a very deserving candidate with an 3.83 grade point average. Other recipients of scholarships from Terrace are Stacy Brown, Nicole Fick, Eric Wilson Glasspell, David Hamhuis, Troy Hanson, - Kyla Palagian, Anglea Parmar, Sylvie Perreault, Daniel Scar- borough, Wade Steel, James Stein, Kristine Torgalson, Ryan Venema, and Lia Wandl. CITY OF TERRACE LANDFILL SITE HOURS EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 1991 THE LANDFILL SITE WILL BE OPEN FROM NOON TO 5:00 P.M. DAILY we know what they’re looking for." Abou says this is the first time that Malaysia has participated in a Commonwealth of Leaming tour. The Commonwealth of Learning has been in existence for three years and has its headquarters in Vancouver. Abou is primarily interested in gleaning information on distance learning and improving systems of access 10 education. Malaysia already has distance learning for public school students, but adult students are somewhat deprived. Brima says he can relate to the northwest because the population of Sierra Leone is scattered, and industry is resource-based and agricultural. He hopes to adapt some of the materials to assist in ‘the re-organization of the educa- tional structure for vocational and academic learning that has been in progress in his country for the past five years. "As a poor country, we need solutions that are also econ- omical and appropriate to the needs of the students," he explains. Gabriel, as a media coordinator, was most intrigued by the net- working that is available at North- west Community College’s learn- ing resource centre through "con- sortiums to organize and buy resource materials at reasonable charges". "Catalogues and inter-library loans would increase the availabil- ity of materials throughout the educational system without in- creasing the-costs," he commented. He was also pleased to note the quantity of non-print material available at the centre. All three visitors were interested in the production of material and correspondence-distance learning. They visited Canyon City and both the elementary and secondary . schools in Aiyansh to see the education system in the outlying areas. "The Canyon City impres- sion will remain," say our visitors. They were fascinated by the sus- pension bridge across the river and treated to a traditional Nisga’a luncheon of pickled sea lion, sea- weed and salmon prepared five different ways! Upon their return to Vancouver, the three men joined their eight colleagues for three days to make individual presentations on their own countries’ educational con- cerns, on what they learned here, and on future possibilities in edu- cation at home. Gabriel Muita feels a beneficial result of the tour has been the sense of internationalism and inter- cultural communication throughout. 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