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
Education Second Place In Alberta’s It’s Your Future survey, education came in second (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200410/172401F7FC19F-BBA2-45E7-B085888533EE2751.html) only to health-care as a priority for Albertans. This is, no doubt, in large part due to people very much like you, so a big thank you for that. I hope the government will take the time to listen to the… Read more »
Alberta Government Misses Mark The Alberta Government recently announced (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200410/1718238A86DF1-30D3-42B7-B87762E615AD28D6.html) that it was well on its way to acting on the various recommendations provided by its own Learning Commission. Of course, what it doesn’t point out is that it’s only acting on the recommendations that it accepted, not all of them. If I got to… Read more »
A Change of Pace I know, I know, I normally complain about everything in these columns. I moan about too much this, too little that, a lack of vision, an abundance of short-sightedness, politicians saying one thing and government doing the opposite. What can I say, truly good news seems rare, and it’s rarely interesting… Read more »
Your Future Ends Later The Alberta Government has extended the deadline (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200409/1708286277045-49E7-4DAF-9B6E05FB5B498BE8.html) for the “It’s Your Future” survey to some unannounced date. This means if you haven’t already made your views known, you might still have the chance. By completing this survey you can help direct Alberta money to the areas that you think need… Read more »
Health Care From the Feds You probably heard about it already on the news: the Federal Government has agreed to provide 41 billion new dollars over the next ten years for health care (http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/news.asp?id=260) across the provinces. In the next six years, 4.5 billion of that will be going into a “Wait Times Reduction” fund… Read more »
Failure Earns More At least, if you’re an Olympic level athlete, it does. After a very disappointing Olympic showing this year (which I attribute mostly to the Canadian Olympic Committee for a ridiculous policy of only allowing people that are supposedly the 12th best in the world or better to go), the federal government has… Read more »
Praying for School Funding? Alberta Learning has decided to inject about twenty million dollars (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200408/16964CC2C7F2D-C66F-4A9E-A511A3CE887F08FC.html) into the educational system. Unfortunately, this money will go into only two school regions around St. Paul. The reason for the funding is to upgrade and expand the current facilities there in order to provide the Francophone, Protestant, and Catholic… Read more »
Provinces Funding Less than Half Statistics Canada released its annual report (http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/040819/d040819a.htm) on university finances last week, and it’s not a pretty picture. Notable is that nationally, students contribute over 20% of the total revenues of universities across the nation. While that doesn’t seem like much, this number is skewed because in Quebec, where tuition… Read more »
ALL ABOARD THE ELECTION GRAVY TRAIN The Alberta Provincial Government is starting to hand out the goodies in anticipation of a November election, as hinted at by the Honourable Premier Klein. First, Alberta’s seniors will no longer have to pay (http://www.gov.ab.ca/home/index.cfm?Page=864) health insurance premiums, putting them on par with just about every other province in… Read more »
NOVA SCOTIA AND SPECIAL NEEDS The provincial government of Nova Scotia will be providing (http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20040806002) tuition support to special needs students who need to go to private schools. While I’m not generally in favour of public funds going to private schools, this particular plan does have something going for it. Mainly, the tuition support funding… Read more »