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FEBRUARY:

Students learned that the government was considering
cutting the propose Dental Hygiene program, saying that it
wasn’t needed despite a current shortage of at least 200
dental hygienists in B.C. right now, and an escalating demand
expected in the future. Again, cutbacks is the apparent motive
behind this multi-million dollar hold up.

Also, the successful and much needed Douglas College-
Royal Columbian Education Centre fell to the cutbacks axe,
this time of health cutbacks. The Centre is now looking for a
new home at another hospital.

MARCH:

Douglas College Student Society’s AGM adopted a new
constitution, with new wording to promote sexual equality.
The Student Society also joined Douglas as part of the
Canadian Federation of Students. This national organization
promotes student rights, but Douglas College Student fees
went from $15 to $19 to pay for it.

All across the country protests were staged to bring the
public aware of what Federal and Provincial Governments are
doing to post secondary education in this country. Despite a
dimally cald and windy day, 1,400 students came out in
Vancouver to say that cutbacks are ‘bullshit’ and if the B.C.
Government doesn’t stop them it may lose the next election,
expected later this year!

APRIL: ee :

The college expects to be about a half million dollars in the -
hole next year and Bill Day has, ‘‘started closing off blood
vessels to save the arm’’. One of the blood vessels was to be —
summerschool but some quick negotiating by our Student

expected to know how many more bloodvessels are to be cut
off in a few weeks when the repercussions of the budget are
clear.

 

 

THE FUTURE:

The B.C. Government has.a very secrative ‘‘Integrated five
yar planning for the British Columbia College and Institute
system’’ which, as Bill Day says, is ‘‘a road map to
authority’’. When the College Board became aware of the
plan at the last board meeting, it expressed outrage that they
had not been consulted for the plan, which does not mention
community colleges or college boards anywhere in its 26
pages. This, some members of the board feel, is an attempt
by the government to centralize and at the same time reduce
local autonomy and power.

As in all things, the future of Post-secondary Education is
in doubt.

   

 
     
     

 

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