24 tera ~~ Wednésday, March 22, 19 9 n follows ‘Hagen's coer ee pe Ree ie ee need amie oO >a a A deeriest coat oe ete son dt aes rarer Aether tans 9h Met dy Shed nee one yy Ceo! “ > Monday the B.C. Minister of « i wee “Advanced Education, ‘Stan. “Hagen, made his: long-awaited response to the Provincial Ac- 3 - cess Committee on Post- . Secondary Education, and ' at’ a first glance it didn’t appear to . oa offer much for the North. But according to Northwest: Com- munity College president Don Anderson, there may be much ’ more than it appears on the sur- face — and there could still be much more to come. In his speech, Hagen spoke of . _ great advances and ‘‘access for all’, He said, *‘Our future pros- perity depends on investments we make today in our people.” He spoke of $35,310,000 in new programs and increased capacity this year alone. He annouriced | that over the next - six years, 15,000 spaces (8,600 in the Low- ‘er Mainland) would be added to university programs and 3,000 of these new spaces would be available this fail. A one-day workshop held recently, above, project instructor Bill Hayes has about two dozen of these vol tivities — the “Habitat Lap Sit”. Each leader represents either food, water, these elements is asked to leave the.circle, It collapses — just as our environment would if it weren’t for good en- ‘vironmental practices. - DON ANDERSON: Second - year university transfer course at NWCC this fall. But. then he. announced ‘the details. A little. more than 1,800 ‘of these new university spaces ‘will go to lower mainland uni- versities and colleges. The .bai- ance will go to university-. colleges in Kelowna, Kamloops and Nanaimo who will be offer- ing ‘quality third-year universi- ty courses” = there will be none. in the North, at least not yet... All Hagen promised that will _ affect our Northwest college sys-. | tem this fall-are 30 new. pro- "grams and 1,000 spaces in non- university, job-related training and. Adult Basic Education. Close to 600 of these will be in— the Lower Mainland, and there may be little more.than 50 for . - the entire Northwest. _ And for the Native popula- tion, there’s -to.be a ‘special " provincial Task Force:on Native Post-Secondary Education .— the North is represented by. Marilyn Norbey of Dease Lake, Terry Brown from. New Hazelton and New Aiyansh resi- dent Ed McMillan. There’s also $400,000 earmarked for renova- tions and equipment to offer ac- cess to adult special. education for the disabled and. another $600,000 to provide more aid to college instructors and special education coordinators. trades, adi hs sin pene = ll area Fear ear ‘Aaraensca | vary ald Spent! vd! Pale wre scanner “Hagen did announce; - how: ever, ‘that there was “approval ‘in’ principal” fora ‘self- governing, . degree-granting * university in the North. In this’ regard, -he ‘announced. ‘another task f force to be formed, an an ‘‘Im- plementation Planning Group”. This - “group”, “according _ to. ; Hagen, is to recommend . by year’s end afi “action plan” for setting up a Northern university. ~ He added to this, if the universi- ty becomes a reality,: there: will ‘be a “‘Northern Premium”. By ‘ this he means education in the. North . will still. cost more, primarily due to class size. There are a few other ‘items covered in. his speech, but that would appear.to be it for the North, A few more seats in the and if you want a univer- sity degree, pay the price and ‘head south, And. this can cost promising students in the North up to $8,000 a year, adding up to $40,000 for a professional “Project Wild”, taught ecology-oriented activities to local Guide leaders. And unteers going through one of these ac- shelter or space, and when one of But Anderson is ‘more e opti: mas a mistic, It won't be confirmed = until the budget speech: is read on Mar. 30, but. Anderson: feels: certain that NWCC. will be ‘of- fering. second year university transfer courses this fall. He says they. would be offering pro- grams in‘all areas with the excep- “tion of ‘‘very specific applied. careers’ such as Fine Arts and Engineering. -Also, he adds, Smithers and Prince Rupert will be offering first year transfer ‘courses for the first time ever.- _And by the end of the year, he says, the Implementation Plan- ning Group will have come up with a report that will be ac- cepted by Victoria. There. will be a Northern University — even-. tually. He says a ““cooperative telationship”’ is being developed by all three. Northern colleges and they are ‘‘all on the same - track”? in this -regard. Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. pee Sle Saturday | 9 A.M. to 11 p.m. boy ' Sunday 11 am, to 11 p.m. ~ 635-6300 - COLD BEER and WIN E STORE “— Open Holidays — seen tes eure page Fee en one ert