Thank you, Madam Speaker. There are students who want to be teachers, as well, that have taken their own initiative, even taken their families to southern institutions, specifically, the University of Saskatchewan, and they take the hardships along with it. It is not very pleasant going to university in the south on limited resources. What you are doing here with the community-based teacher education program is giving additional money above and beyond what students have been normally getting to people who are from the community to try to encourage them to go back to school, but there are people who have taken that initiative on their own, and for taking the initiative on their own, they do not have the benefits that the students who we are encouraging to go back to school have. It is not fair to those students who have taken that extra effort and hardship to go to university, and you are encouraging the other ones to take it. To me, it is not fair, and to the students in the University of Saskatchewan who I am aware of, it is not fair. What I am saying is, have you looked at this policy to see if you could change the policy to allow for these students who are going to become teachers with a degree in education and who are going to come back home to the north to teach in the school system? Are you going to be able to change the policy so that they could benefit from it as the other people who are taking the CTEP? Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 173-12(5): Post-secondary Assistance For Teacher Training, University Vs Arctic College Students
In the Legislative Assembly on February 22nd, 1994. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 173-12(5): Post-secondary Assistance For Teacher Training, University Vs Arctic College Students
Question 173-12(5): Post-secondary Assistance For Teacher Training, University Vs Arctic College Students
Item 5: Oral Questions
February 21st, 1994
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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