SASKATOON (Staff) – Tinkering with education systems is also popular in Alberta and Manitoba.
Alberta has drafted regulations on home schooling and is awaiting comment this summer from parents and educators. One proposal that has drawn criticism from an Alberta Liberal MLA would force children taught at home by their parents to take standardized provincial tests for grades 3, 6 and 9.
Education critic Michael Henry said a more realistic measure of home-educated students’ achievements might be based on a portfolio of the child’s school work or tests on the individual curriculum.
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The Manitoba government has just responded to the recommendations of a review of its post-secondary education system.
In a press release education minister Clayton Manness said: “Society is going through a period of change unmatched since the industrial revolution which will require a change in the way we conduct post-secondary education and training.”
The government wants universities to selectively enhance or terminate some programs to fit in with the province’s economic growth specialties (health care, aerospace, information, environment, food processing, tourism). It also wants them to co-operate more to reduce duplication and recognize each other’s courses and work toward prairie-wide sharing of programs.
Community colleges are also expected to assume a more important role in training Manitobans.
