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China crisis causes college
to suspend Far East program

BUSINESS INSTRUCTION CENTRE EXCHANGE PUT ON HOLD

LAST WEEK’S army slaughter of Chinese students and
workers in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square has resulted in the
suspension of a Capilano College business training program
set up between the local campus and the China Enterprise
Management Training Centre in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Supported by CIDA funding,
the training centre was opened in
1984 as a learning resource for
mid-level and senior management
business people in China.

Capilano College and other Ca-
nadian university and college in-
structors have been travelling to
Chengdu to teach Western business
practices to the Chinese. The cen-
tre is intended to become a purely

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Chinese enterprise by 1993.
Meanwhile, the centre’s Chinese
instructors have been coming to
Canada to study business here,
Ten Chinese instructors, who have
been studying at the college, were
to have returned to Chengdu via

Beijing next Saturday. But their
return has been delayed by at least
a month because of the turmoil in
China.

Said Dr. Jon Jessiman, associate
dean and head of International
Programs at the college, ‘‘We had

point. If it's necessary to extend
their stay here further, external af-
fairs has said to us that they wouid
be most obliging to us in that a3
well.’”

The Chinese group is anxious to
Teturn_to their families at home.

LOCAL RETURNS FROM BEIJING; TE 4CHERS ANXIOUS
TO RETURN TO CHINA: SEE STORIES PAGE 3

their visas extended and airline
tickets changed. They would nor-
mally go to Beijing because there is
a debriefing session in Beijing for a
couple of days and then they
would normally catch the train
from there to Chengdu. That
doesn't appear appropriate at this

“We checxed Wednesday with the
families of Chinese instructors who
are here,’’ Jessiman said. ‘‘The
president of the centre said that
they are all in gocd health. The
concerns of our instructors here is
See China
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DR. Jon Jessiman, Associate Dean
and Head of International Pro-
grams at Capilano College
--.‘*Because we can’t guarantee the
safety of the people in and out
we've suspended things.’’