@nformer

Signing an
articulation
agreement with Dr.
Greg Lee are four
superintendents.
From left to right,
back row: Doug
Player, school
district #45 (West
Van), John Ludgate,
#44 (North Van), Ken
Rogers, #46
(Sunshine Coast),
and Audrey
Nawrocky, #39
(Vancouver), front
right.

Agreement Offers
College Courses to
High Schools

econdary school students from

Vancouver, North and West
Vancouver, Squamish and the Sunshine
Coast, will soon be offered a jump start
on programs at Capilano College.

The first articulation agreement
between the five school boards and
Capilano College was signed at the
College’s North Vancouver campus on
Friday, May 31. The agreement offers
benefits for grade 11 and 12 students
who plan to pursue a post-secondary
education in Applied Business
Technology.

The objectives of this agreement are
to facilitate post-secondary entry for
secondary school graduates by
minimizing duplication of curriculum
content and providing qualified
graduates of career preparation
programs with preferential admission.

Two options will be offered to high
school students, who will be advised
and assisted by their teachers, in

consultation with Capilano College staff.

Option number one automatically
accepts qualified Career Preparation
graduates into the Department of
Applied Business Technology’s
Accounting Assistant Program,
Administrative Assistant Program, Legal
Secretarial Program, and Medical Office
Assistant Program. They will not be
required to undergo any screening
process.

The second option offers College
credits to those students who maintain an
“A” (85%) standing and complete
specific core material in grades 11 and
12.

This is a partnership which the
provincial government has been urging
post-secondary institutions to pursue. It’s
an excellent opportunity for both the
students and the College. It will save
students time and money, and will
introduce the College to students at a
younger age.

Apply for
College on
the World
Wide Web

p= who want to attend
& post-secondary institutions in

B.C. can now surf the Internet to _

avoid gathering and filling out

_ paper application-for-admission
_ forms.

~ WebApp, short for World Wide
Web Application Form,is

_ available on the Web at oe H

www.pas.bc.ca/__

Applications for first-time
admission to B.C.’s five _ .
universities (Royal Roads, SFU,

_ UBC, UNBC and UVic), as well as

BCIT, are being accepted over the
Internet. The WebApp process has
generated more than 2,000
applications since the service __
began on January 15, 1996.

WebApp is Canada’s first
application-for-admission service
on the Internet and the first of its
type in the world. It was .
developed by the Post-Secondary
Application Service of B.C.
(PASBC) and several post-
secondary institutions in B.C. The
remaining 18 public post-
secondary institutions in B.C.
(colleges, university colleges and
institutes), including Capilano
College, will be added to the
WebApp service during the next
year.

@ @= Capilano
Coax core

Vol. XVIII No. 6
June 21/96