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Terry Peters recently when the group performed before an enthusiastic audience at a North Shore park .

OLI off to promising start

Learning Institute popular

B.C.’s Open Learning
Instituee (OLE) has
ended its first academic

year with = greater
success than had been
anticipated.

Enrollment in the = in-
stitute, started two years ago
to cater to the educational
needs of people with dif-
ficulty gaining access to
regular classroom = in-
struction, is far greater than
expected.

In September 1979 initial
enrolment was about 700. By
January of this) year, the
figure was up to 2450.

More surprising.
enrolment for the current
summer semester is 1500, far
more than OLI expected.

The institute is confident
of doubling the number of
students in the next three
semesters.

OLI was given a mandate
in 1978 to provide
educational services for the
“geographically and socially
isolated.”

. The geographically
isolated are those not within
easy range of college
facilites. Though every
sizable B.C community now
has some form of college.
there are still thousands of
people who can't casily get
to these institutes.

Socially isolated people
scem to have access to these
facilities, but really don't
because of yobs, health
problems. small children. or

because they feel un-
comfortable in a college or
university social setting.

OLI directors feel they
have reached both of these
groups of people with their
programs.

Research indicates that
interest in OLI is related to

distance from post-
secondary institutes. Over
Seventy percent of OLI

Students are from
metropolitan areas.

The average OLI student,
it seems, is a small town
resident. femalc, in her mid-
30's, employed or a
housewife and with some
high school education

OLI offers three program
arcas Adult Basic
Education, University

non-

studies, and Career,
Technical and Vocational
programs.

The institute feels that the
large enrolment and the
makeup of the student body
validates the founding of
OLI.

There is a demand for
home study programs,
especially in small com-
munities,the institute
believes. OLI gives access to
comprehensive educational
services in places which
can't be served by classroom
Instructors and.to pcople
unable to attend regularly
scheduled courses.

The Open Learning Iin-
sututc, its directors feel, has
been and will continue to be
a succcss.

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