Doug Collins ®@ get this straight @ IT WAS on the inside pages for a day and was then given a quiet burial. No editorial writers fulminated. No politicians roared their rage. We have become used to the absurd, 1 refer to what happened at Nanaimo’s Malaspina College. The college put on this World Conference for Youih, you see, that brought together 220 young ones from 110 nations, and the event was hailed as a Good Thing. When it was over, Malaspina was $337,000 in the hole. At the same time, educators across the province were complaining daily to their god) (Mammon, not Sacrifice) that they needed more dent, it has been reported, was that ke was not willing to preside over the decline of the B.C, col- lege system. Well, it nice to see that some principals are men of high principle. How do these guys work it? No one has ever asked me to be a con- sultant at amy price, yet here lam, willing to be consulted on almost anything at half the going rate. For example, I could quite easily organize a conference that overspends by only $/50,000. “Et cost $273,000 in air fares alone to bring the 220 youths from 240 countries to Nanaimo to hear the great Toffler and others do their song and dance acts. Your contribution, through federc' grants, was $236,000.’ Among other delights offered to the 220 youths from 110 coun- tries was a one-hovr speech from Alvin Toffler the futurist, for which he was paid $31,000. Yes, 31 grand for one hour! Clearly, Toffler’s future is assured, even though disaster may await the rest of us. The organizer and inspirator of this fling into the public money pots was Bruce Fraser, president of. Malaspina at the time it was held. And when the festivities were over, he graciously consented to i become a college ‘‘consultant’’ at his former salary of $68,700. His reason for quitting as presi- Confronted by a faculty that was understandably miffed about dough going down the drain that the profs might have taken home in wages, Fraser said the deficit was a surprise to him. It cost $273,000 in air fares alone to bring the 220 youths from 110 countries to Nanaimo to hear the great Toffler and others do their song and dance acts. Your contribution, through federal grants, was $236,000. Plus you keep the college going. The topic of the gabfest was “global youth employment strategies’’. Did anyone tell the kids that the Lest employinent strategies were $6,000 FOR WORKSHOPS Science teacher grant awarded MARY COLLINS, Capilano MP, recently announced the award of a federal government grant to the Society For Canadian Women in Science and Technology for its project Workshops for Teachers of Elementary Science. The grant, totalling $6,000, will: permit the organization to hold workshops for female elementary school teachers on the B.C. Science cursiculum. It will enable the teachers to handle the curriculum with in- creased confidence and to en- courage elementary girls to main- tain an interest in science subjects. This is the second year that the Secretary of State has provided funds to hold these workshops. FINANCIAL PLANNING FOK RETIREMENT Serving the North Shore from Park Royal * Annuity rates & money markets surveyed daily ¢ Retirement Income Funds (R.R.I.F.s) ¢ Pre-Retirement Counselling Call now to arrange your free initial appointment. BERT WICKHAM & ASSOCIATES LTD. Suite 29, 659 Clyde Ave., Park Royal 925-3101 for them to become consultants and futurists? xt wk *® That brings me-to how the alms-persons knows as the educa- tion lobby would have you believe they are threatened by famine, while most of the media wring their hands and wail, ever suckers for a sob-story. What do we get for the money? Iiteracy, for one thing. It is claimed that 5,000,000 Canadians are functionally illiterate. Of those, 500,000 are said to be in B.C. Yet education swallowed $1.355 billion in the last year, or 16 per cent of the provincial budget. And that doesn't include the cost of the universities. Right across the country, we pay a lot for little. McMaster University has reported that 42 per cent of its first-year students failed its mew mandatory literacy test. The failures then .ook a se- cond kick at the can, but 57 per cent of them failed again. Moncey ain't the answer to our education woes. When there was less of it, the kids performed bet- ter. There was also a bit of discipline, and no one ever heard of teachers giving vent to the groans of love under a desk, or patting students where they shouldn’t. ‘ When automobile ccrporations put out a rotten car, there’s a recall and you get a better one. In B.C. today, it’s easier to rob a bank than it is to fire a teacher. The complaints about educa- tion money are all rubbish, twad- dle and babble. 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