This document outlines a proposal for the implementation of "The Virtual Campus" program in New Brunswick, a distributed online learning environment that will support the participation of all regions of the province and all sectors involved in learning and training. It also supports the development of multimedia courseware at all…

The Transition of Youth into the Labour Market is a developmental study of youth as they make the difficult transition into the labor market of Newfoundland and Labrador. The project consists of two parallel yet interrelated studies, one focusing on the full cohort of over 9000 Level III high school students at the end of the 1988-89 school year,…

This report discusses and compares language planning and the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland and the English-speaking minority in Quebec. The report discusses four issues: historical minorities and the demographic dynamic; municipalities; the language of work; and other minority language groups. It is concluded that, despite numerous surface…

The videotape, "A Framework for Action," outlines the components of the Management of Education Cycle underlying the Management and Finance Plan (MFP) of the Alberta (Canada) system of education. This paper complements the material presented in the videotape by describing the Management of Education Cycle underlying MFP and providing…

This is the final report of the Financial Plan Project for Colleges and Universities. Its primary purpose is to present proposals on a financial plan for Alberta universities and public colleges. Following a brief review of financing postsecondary education in Canada, it focuses on the last ten years of Alberta practice; the treatment is…

To promote popular participation as a means and goal of community development, the Bureau d'Amenagement de l'Est du Quebec (BAEQ) had to work within a milieu that favored traditional power structures over social participation in decision making. Phase 1 (May-September 1963) of this project was mainly a time for recruiting and training change…

The author conducted a cross-cultural survey of attitudes toward the pill among university students, part of this international sample being a group of young Canadians. The subjects were students from a southwestern Canadian university and were stratified as to sex and amount of education. The author employed his Pill Scale, a 25-item Likert type…

The Commission on Academic Development was established to examine the goals and development of the University of Victoria and related issues. This document includes the appendixes to their report and contains: (1) the call for submission to the commission; (2) a list of submissions, bibliography, and other source documents; (3) report on…

This report highlights the current status of career counseling in the province of British Columbia and presents the recommendations of this province regarding future developments. There is emphasis upon the need for Federal participation in the development of self-counseling system and information services for potential post-secondary students who…

The prime purpose of this document on Alberta, Canada's project SEARCH (Selection of Educational Alternatives for Rural Change) was that of acquainting the interested reader with the project. The SEARCH program, which evolved through the felt need to improve rural education, had 2 major objectives: to select and field test promising innovations…

Requirements of a comprehensive approach to adult and continuing education in Quebec are set forth, with particular attention to individual and social needs in a changing world as well as to short-and long-range educational objectives. Proposals are offered for serving the unemployed and other groups, reshaping content and methodology, allocating…

Canada has an especially difficult information problem since an enormous proportion of the publications required by Canadian researchers are produced in foreign countries. The attempt to solve this problem by a numerological or Farmington Plan approach is wrong both in theory and practice. This method emphasizes size and discounts selectivity.…

The United States experience with bilingual schools falls into two periods: from 1840-1920 and from 1963 to the present. Bilingual schooling may be said to have originated in Cincinnati in 1840, where a large minority of the population was German-speaking. During this first period, perhaps a million American children received a part of their…

This document is intended to serve as a guideline for school boards planning an educational complex. The diagrams are simple examples of some of the types of facilities, the space relationship, and the compositional elements of major areas for an intermediate school of 900 students. (Author)

A cooperative program for training business education teachers was established by the Lethbridge Community College and the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Canada. The program combines courses from both institutions and leads to a Bachelor of Education degree. (EC)