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College President Takes Educational Leave

He will be no Day in the life of
Douglas College for seven
months beginning May 1.

President Bill Day is taking an
educational leave in order to un-
dertake research at UBC’s Centre
for Policy Studies in Education.

His task is two-fold; he will be
part of a 6-person team reporting
to the Organization of Economic
Cooperation & Development
(OECD) on trends in technical and
vocational education.

“Every industrial country is ex-
amining the relationship between
government and education. Our
job as a team is to write a report
that can be compared with reports
from other countries on technical
and career vocational education,”
says Day, who was an OECD
delegate from Canada to Paris in
1973. “The OECD will use it to

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offer advice to its member na-
tions.”

Day notes that technical and
career vocational education is vital
to the community college system;
his research will allow him access
to the best current information on
the subject. “It’s a primary focus
of our activities here at Douglas
College, and Ill be able to get a
sense of how things work else-
where.”

Most of Day’s remaining time

   
     

 
   

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Education, Training & Technology TAdanes ee ent Services
on non-funded education in col- A Atkinson; ecomes Acting
leges and institutes. Events ofthe © Alling beginning oe hie
past several years haveledhimto tkinson anticipates that his _
believe that the nature of com- term as Acting President will

not be marked by. major change.
“The first thing is to main- _
tain stability, and I would like it
_if people did not notice big dif- .
ferences in style of operations, —
_or priorities, That doesn't mean
a lame duck caretaker; it means
no new dramatic changes in -
- direction,” he says.
Atkinson describes his ascen-
_ sion to the presidency as con-
taining an “element of suTp tee,
an element of excitement, and
an element of apprehension re-_
_lated to the challenge.” While _
looking ahead to his new duties.
_ during the next months, Atkin-
son notes that the communal na-
ture of the College
administration’ s operations

munity colleges must be re-ex-
amined.

“They're asking us to set up a
data base that will allow us to ex-
amine what's going on in the area
of non-funded educational ac-
tivities, and to make policy recom-
mendations,” says Day.

“Many things have happened
in B.C. to throw these things into
question; for example, Com-
munity Programs & Services is a
huge self-funding part of our col-
lege, but it was not deemed fun-
dable by the federal government.”

Day plans to augment the two
research opportunities with a per-
sonal study of the evolution of
community colleges on his own
time, and he’s looking ahead to
the challenge. “I feel privileged

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