Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Under the area of the colleges, in my opening comments I expressed my concern regarding the credit transfer agreements. The fact that it is not the agreement that I am concerned about, it is the fact that some students are not able to take advantage of those agreements at times when instructors do not finish all the necessary course work. As a result of that they cannot make their exams difficult enough so that the universities and colleges will accept the transfer. While I appreciate the Minister's willingness to look at the particular cases that I had brought up, that I know of, for those people it is too late, Mr. Chairman.
What I would like to do is to try and ensure that this does not occur any further. I would like the Minister and his staff to try to work with the colleges to ensure that this does not occur because those agreements are very delicate instruments, so to speak. Every time a person wants to transfer his credits from, for instance, Aurora College to the University of Lethbridge they have to show the documentation. You cannot just say I took this course, and I made 89 percent, and they will transfer your credits. It does not work like that. They have to look at that particular course, that year. Everything which was taught, they have to look at the exams that were written, how much you passed those exams by. If a particular instructor does not finish the course work for that particular year, it does not matter if you received 100 percent in every exam, you might not be able to transfer your credits. I am asking the Minister if he can look into this, wherever there are agreements like this to transfer credits, to work with the colleges to ensure the amount of course work that is required to ensure people can actually transfer their credits, that the course work is done and the proper types of exams are written, so people can put that forward when they are trying to transfer their courses. Thank you.
