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Province of Ministry of Parliament Buildings
British Columbia Post-Secondary Victoria
x Education British Columbia
Canada
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SUBJECT:

September 12, 1986

College and Institute Principals
College and Institute Deans
Instructional Skills Contact Persons

Instructor's Diploma Program

As a follow-up to the information on the Instructor's Diploma

Program
want to

1.

presented at the Council of Principal's meeting in August, I
confirm the following:

The Ministry of Post-Secondary Education has a contract with

Vancouver Community College for the delivery of the Instructor's
Diploma Program.

The Ministry has established a Steering Committee to provide
guidance and advice on the operation of the program (Committee
membership list attached).

The program schedule will be set after the Steering Committee
meeting on September 25th. It is proposed that some courses
will run at V.V.I. on a one class per week basis this fall and
winter and that a limited number of on-site week-long courses
also be offered on a "request" basis. Summer school courses
will be offered as numbers warrant. The program will not be
available on a correspondence basis until Spring 1987.

All student records have now been transferred to the Program
Development Department at Vancouver Vocational Institute. The
Department Head, Brian Dwyer, will be coordinating the delivery
of the Instructor's Diploma Program.

A progress report on such items as curriculum review, program
delivery and operational policies will be circulated after the
Steering Committee has met. As we will be planning the future
program schedule to meet student needs for specific courses, it
will help us if colleges and institutes can identify the number
of individuals needing each of the four courses in the

program. We will circulate a request for this information later
this fall.