reference to assist in placing students
|first-year English courses.

|sity of Victoria, and has earned degrees

English Placement Test

‘|News Release from. the Educational

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|to be given ‘on Saturday, March 24, 1984,
_ {Students will be assigned a time and place

 

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Appointment

‘Walter Hogg has been appointed as. a Graduate!
student intern to Gordon Gilgan for a six
month period effective immediately.

His main responsibility will encompass.
acting a 1t/consul te t to the
‘Administrative Func ioning Review Committee.

‘Walter is a recent transplant from the froz-|
en wasteland of Northern Alberta where he

was a public school principal for four
years. He is currently a graduate student
in educational administration at the Univer-|

 

 

from Calgary, Edmonton, and Victoria.

 

 

Research Insitute oF GC.

The English Placement Test (EPT) required by
sh

 

.

School Districts wishing to offer the test

} a examinees are required to register for |

| available either from secondary school of-—

| with the completed registration form. |

| March 2

| secondary institute must write either in

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their home address.

to students within their secondary schools |
will administer the EPT on March 27, 1984,

this test and application forms will be

fices or through ERIBC. The fee of $15
per applicant is to be returned to ERIBC

ip sioh for applications is Friday,
» 1984,

Late sraliemyta With be referred to the
pete Me administration scheduled for
Students who. requrie EPT

cation at a post~_

“scores for fall appli

March or in July.

For further information, please contact:
Mrs. Patricia Fraser, Senior or Project

Administrators Educational Research Instit- |
ute of B.C., 701 - 601 W. Broadway,
Vancouver, 8. .C, V5Z 4C2, Tel. 873-3801. :

 

many colleges and universities in Britis
Columbia. as part of the application for en-
rollment in post-secondary studies, will be
made available. to students in March 1984 by —
the Educational Research Institute of British

|Columbia — (ERIBC).

The EPT was developed in 1977, under contract
to the Ministry of Education, to provide
post- secondary institutes with a standard

: in
Approximately
180,000 students wrote this test from 1977
to 1983. This testing service is no longer
being funded by the Ministry of Education.

 

|However, in response to requests by many of

the universities and colleges who use the

administer the EPT throughout the province.

JA user fee is being charged to meet the costs}
jof administration and reporting.
joffered to secondary and mature students in

|July, November and March and are administered]
Jat public institutions.

Tests are

1984 adminstration is scheduled

 

| methods and adaptations that will assist |
| students with physical handicaps to inte- |

| search, and interviewing students with dis-—

i | you may hear from Paula.

tests, ERIBC is ‘continuing to develop and thes eos

| Financial Aid Office), local 2793.
| free to call her if you have any ideas or
| experiences to share that may be useful for
| the manual .

Ney Coundaila

A warm welcome is ey eid to Paula Simpson,
a new member in the Counselling Centre.
Paula is on contract to write a manual on

 

grate into college classrooms, In order to
ite the manual, she will ‘be doing re-

 

abilities and their instructors. Some of

I feel very fortunate to have Paula working
‘She is well known i

on this project.

   

king for he Coalition of Brovinetal.
arate cians a ae

dias

Paula is Tocated in fein 2791 (near the.
Feel

in, the |

Bee National,

 

 

jof_writing at_a site allocated _according to _|

| Gladys Klassen