Born and (mostly) raised in Calgary, Karl has been taking courses on and off at AU since 1999. At one point, he changed his major from Computing Science to Computing Science because the new program requirements fit what he’d already taken better. Since then, he switched to English and graduated (w/Great Distinction he likes to add) proving along the way that it is entirely possible to complete an entire AU course within a three week period. If only he had done this at the beginning of the course instead of in the last extension.
This is not something he advises unless you are desperate, masochistic, or, ideally, both.
He is currently the managing editor of The Voice Magazine, where he tries to put his education to use helping other students as they provide content for The Voice
A Partial Victory for NDP According to an NDP recent press release received by The Voice on April 22, 2005, Alexa McDonough, Advanced Education Critic for the NDP, said in the house of commons: “Mr. Speaker, during the 2004 election the Prime Minister promised to reinvest $8 billion, which he in fact had cut, back… Read more »
Alberta Budgets For Post-Secondary The Alberta Budget is in and one of the top items in the budget release (Government of Alberta, 2005a) is post-secondary education. The Advanced Education ministry has actually warranted its own special release (Ibid., 2005b), detailing what’s going to happen over the next three years in post-secondary education. The special release… Read more »
A Tale of Two Provinces British Columbia and Saskatchewan both have the same problem. As our population grows older, there’s an increasing demand for health care professionals. Both provinces want to have more health care professionals available. Both provinces would also like to have them educated in their province rather than paying sufficiently high salaries… Read more »
Here Comes the Sun The province of Alberta will soon have a large-scale solar heating project (http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/media/newsreleases/2005/200520_e.htm), the first of its kind in North America. This project will apparently provide up to 90% of the heating costs of a community of about 52 homes and will serve as an example of just what can be… Read more »
Alexander Rutherford Loses Significance Once again the Alberta government has announced (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200503/17757529C8691-86B2-485F-AA2C46550780FEC1.html) its award of the Alexander Rutherford Scholarships to deserving high school students. To be eligible, the students need to have honors marks in grade 10, 11, or 12, with each year having a progressively larger amount. This year, the government is giving out… Read more »
Us vs. U.S. Statistics Canada recently completed a survey (http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050315/d050315c.htm) on participation rates in university education between the United States and Canada. While they found that America has a higher participation rate in general (39% compared to our 33%), the vast majority of that comes from the families who have income in the top 25%… Read more »
Budget Boosted Again The Alberta Government has once again announced (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200502/17642CED06B7D-3313-4774-8EF80E0D8E396BDF.html) that it under-estimated the revenues it would receive. This time, it’s the Alberta Heritage fund, which is expected to earn 383 million dollars more than it was originally budgeted to, an increase of over half the amount previously expected. With the Alberta debt already… Read more »
Human Capital over Infrastructure Statistics Canada has recently released a report (http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/81-004-XIE/2004006/litearn.htm) that just backs up what I’ve been saying for a long time. Investing in human capital, that is, investing in improving the knowledge, skill-sets, and education of the populace, is far more beneficial for the economy as a whole than investing in physical… Read more »
More Spaces for Alberta Students The Alberta Government, along with its tuition subsidy program for Albertans, has also announced that it will be increasing the number of spaces available (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200502/175816D47D9FC-85A9-43B2-A5DAB0E55AD1AE1F.html) for post-secondary education by 60,000, or almost half the total amount available now. 15,000 of those spaces are expected to be added in the next… Read more »
Holy Crap You’ve probably already heard that Alberta’s Premier Klein has announced (http://www.gov.ab.ca/home/index.cfm?page=988) that the Alberta Government will be covering the cost of any tuition increases Alberta universities need to make this year. In addition, the government will be re-working the Alberta tuition policy to make sure that education is affordable for all students. Personally,… Read more »