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ernment, and the Bridge Report as a guide to what was needed,
the Provincial Department of Education was able to begin
planning the Institute. The Bridge Report had advised that the
Department “make use of advisory committees consisting of
personnel from research, engineering, management, labour, the
university, and professional societies to advise on curricula,
equipment, physical facilities and other matters pertinent to
the education and training of technicians,” and early in 1961
such an Advisory Council was formed.

The Council appointed Chairmen of sub-committees in 18
possible fields of study at a'technical institute, and the reports
of these committees were submitted in June, 1961. One pro-
gramme, Aeronautical, was subsequently dropped; the re-
maining 17 are the programmes now available at the Institute.

Of 100 students in Canada who enter Grade 2, 33 graduate
from high school, and only 9 of these proceed to university. The
24 who drop out of the school system after high school gradua-
tion are not trained for any skilled work, yet have demon-

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strated their ability to handle such work by their performance
in high school. For these students, the Institute is a possible
alternative, which was not available before, to university.

Training is provided in 12 science programmes, 3 business
programmes, and 2 medical programmes. The instructors were
chosen primarily from industry, in keeping with the stated
objective of the Institute—‘“to provide graduate technologists
equipped to meet the needs of industry.” ~ :

The forestry training is directed in the main toward prepar-
ing young men for work in the forest industry, more particu-
larly in cruising, logging and road construction. In the two-
year programme a great deal of time is spent in the woods on
the Seymour and Lynn Creek watersheds, on Hollyburn Ridge
and Burnaby Mountain. The cooperation of the Greater Van-
couver Water Board, the West Vancouver Municipality and
Simon Fraser University have made huge areas of typical
topography and timber conditions available within a twenty
minute bus ride. In addition, the B.C. Forest Service and the
B.C. Loggers’ Association have assisted in providing training
and testing facilities for the log scaling instruction that makes
up \% of the Forest Mensuration course. Students are also in-
volved in field trips to logging and forestry operations in the
University Forest at Haney, the Mission Tree Farm, the
Cowichan Lake Forest Experiment Station, and nearby indus-
trial operations. Visiting lecturers from industry, from the
B.C. Forest Service, the Federal Forest Products Laboratory
and from the Federal Forest Laboratory in Victoria, present
up-to-date material each year.

Applications to enter this programme are over 3 times
present capacity. Failure rates are surprisingly low. It is felt
that since many of the students have worked in their field of
interest before enrolling, their motivation is far better than is
usually found in a group at this age level.

Applicants must have graduated from high school in the
Academic and Technical Programme with Mathematics,
Biology and Drafting as pre-requisites to qualify for the con-
centrated 2-year programme—fifteen weeks from September
to Christmas and twenty weeks from January to June. Each
week consists of 35 hours of tuition divided between approxi-
mately 15 hours lecture and 20 hours of lab work. Fees are
SHAG per year for tuition, with books costing approximately

100.00. :

In addition to their daily required hours, most students
spend 20 to 30 hours each week in home assignments.

Without describing each subject in detail, the following
points are worthy of mention. The English course is directed

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speeds are checked and remedi:
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struments using light and sour
and distances. The General Pe
Dendrology and Wood Technolon
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methods. The students spend om
term an the log booms, rain o
and grading in order to attempit
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Coastal Scaler’s Licence. :
In Fire Control they becon
and suppression techniques incl
and hand tools. The course in
the major manufacturing progs
bucking, sawing, chipping, cooking
flaking, sheet forming and a
produce pulp, paper, lumber,’
hard boards, and plywood. P
the basic uses of aerial phofig
Pathology and Entomology are}
duce the students to the study o!
The Logging and Roads and
up 335 hours of the total pré
Coastal techniques are pales: 3 r
mapping through engineering lay
bucking, grading & scaling, loAdih
and towing. River driving and-wir
also discussed. Field labs includ’
woods with aerial photographs
locations for grades, switchbaél
sions cover construction and coll
ords and planning. Films, slid

Forest Management include
appraisals as well as the multiple
life, parks, etc. Calculations ofvallo
and the Forest Service adminis
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Silviculture is a major area
emphasizing techniques of seed
tion, stand treatments. ‘?s

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