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Date: 13 Oct 92 11:49 +0800
From: Tony Bates <tonyb@ola.bc.ca>
To: banpln-m@acs.ucalgary.ca
Message-Id: <476*tonyb@ola.bc.ca>
Subject: planning: issues
 
I'd like to start by finding out what issues regarding the
future of your distance education institution/department
are bugging you the most at the moment. You can do this in two
ways: put them in the conference, or send them to me as an e-mail,
and I'll collect them together/group them. I'll start off by
listing what is causing the Open learning Agency to review
its plans:
        1.      'Formula' funding; we are being treated more or
                less the same as all the other institutions
                regarding funding of at least our 'base-line'
                from our Ministry, despite growing concern
                about the need for major changes in our post-secondary
                system to meet growing demand and a ceiling on
                public funds.
        2.      Related to this is the pressure from the 'regular'
                institutions to solve the access problem by building
                more campuses: more bums on seats. The council of
                colleges and institutes (AECBC) has just produced
                a paper on access which reinforces this pressure.
                Because a campus is a physical asset in a community,
                such pressure carries a good deal of weight 
politically.
I'll stop there. When we have a number of 'common' issues, we can
start discussing how to deal with them.
e-mail address: tonyb@ola.bc.ca



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