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
NEEDED BURSARIES FOR NEEDY PEOPLE The province of Ontario announced on August 16, 2005 the creation of grants for low-income students. Up to 16,000 first-year students in Ontario will be receiving grants of approximately $3,000 (just over three-quarters of the average university tuition in Ontario). This bursary, made in conjunction with the Canada Millennium Scholarship… Read more »
Nova Scotia Helping AU At the annual premiers meeting, it seems that the Premier of Nova Scotia was advocating (http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20050808006) that the federal government take steps that will benefit AU tremendously. As part of their recommendations to the Federal Government, Nova Scotia suggested that Ottawa adjust its funding for post-secondary education to utilize a per-student… Read more »
Government Finds Taxation Affects Wealth The Government is strangely pleased to announce its findings that the National Child Benefit program, a program that gives extra tax benefits to low income families, is working to help these families avoid poverty. Apparently the people in the government weren’t exactly sure that giving people more money would help… Read more »
The Missing Articles You might be wondering where Fed-Watch has been the last couple of weeks. Here at home, my computer finally gave up after six years of hard service. Along with stricter deadlines being imposed by our editor (I’m always notoriously late with these things) this means that I simply haven’t been able to… Read more »
Aboriginal Students in Saskatchewan Receive Boost The provincial government of Saskatchewan is partnering with the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation in order to create a new scholarship specifically for aboriginal students. Over six million dollars is being put into the new Millennium Aboriginal Access Bursary. This initiative will provide bursaries of $2,000 for 2,500 aboriginal post-secondary… Read more »
Alberta’s Post-Secondary Review Once again the Alberta Government is conducting a review (http://www.advancededucation.gov.ab.ca/alearningalberta/) of post-secondary education. Once again, it completely misses its own learning commission’s recommendation that an independent review be conducted, and is conducting the review itself. That said, the current review is at least expanding beyond the Ministry of Advanced Education for the… Read more »
Research Receives More Money The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has announced funding for almost 1000 research projects (http://www.sshrc.ca/web/whatsnew/press_releases/2005/srg_e.asp), to the tune of $81.2 million dollars. If you’d care to know what that buys, you can take a look at the list of projects (http://www.sshrc.ca/web/winning/comp_results/2005_srg.pdf). While I don’t like to denigrate research… Read more »
Positive Changes in New Brunswick The Student Finance System in New Brunswick is seeing some positive changes (http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/edu/2005e0620ed.htm). Starting August 1, New Brunswick will have reduced the amount that parents are expected to contribute, increased the amount of funding a student can receive per week, and allowed computer-related costs to be considered as part of… Read more »
The Grits Remain It was all over the news recently: Belinda Stronach “crossed the floor” of the Parliament to become a member of the official government caucus. The Prime Minister released a statement(http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/news.asp?id=495) about the move, calling it “gutsy” and, of course, saying he was proud to have her on his team. For AU students,… Read more »
Meeting of the Minds Back in March, the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, had a meeting. Why am I telling you now? Because on May 5th, the Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat finally put up a notice(http://www.scics.gc.ca/cinfo05/860499004_e.html) informing people of this. I know I’m not the world’s fastest worker but this has taken them nearly… Read more »