Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't know that I can provide that information right now from here. I think it's important to remember that a decision that's made in Grade 9 about a course will determine whether or not a student can go on to post-secondary studies. So we have a lot of students who come through by Grade 12 who have maybe not taken the right courses to move on with their studies. So not everybody with a graduation certificate will be qualified to go on to post-secondary studies. A number of years ago, provinces and territories used to issue two different kinds of graduation certificates; one was a general and one was an academic. Typically if you had the general diploma, you didn't have the qualifications to go on to post-secondary studies. We don't issue those two anymore because it doesn't make any difference to the post-secondary institutions. They don't care if you've got an academic diploma; they only care if you've got the right prerequisites. So they take a look at what courses the student has taken and whether or not that student is then qualified to move into an area of study. So the world has gotten a lot more specialized and unless you take exactly the right courses in high school, you may find that you're going to need to take some upgrading courses after you've achieved that level of a diploma. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Charles Dent on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 19th, 2007
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