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Matt Ormandy; Alexa Ferdinands; Autumn Nesdoly; Maria Mayan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This qualitative pilot study introduces and reflects on early development and implementation of the Zero Fee Tuition (ZFT) program in the rural, oil and gas town of Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada. This innovative, primarily municipally funded program, implemented in 2019, provides local students with up to $5,000 in free tuition for select…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tuition, Educational Finance, Tuition Grants
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Doyle, Antoinette; Li, Ling – SAGE Open, 2021
Family-focused early learning programs aim to assist parents in supporting their young children language and literacy development. This study examined program access and learning opportunities for diverse families across a wide range of community-based settings in one eastern Canadian province. As well, the study examined practitioners'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Access to Education, Community Programs
McDonald, Linda; McDonald, Stewart – 1991
This book chapter describes a program of the Two Hills Regional Resource Centre (THRRC), which provides support services to 39 towns in northeastern Alberta. The program supports individuals with severely challenging behaviors (such as self-abuse, aggression, destructiveness, and noncompliance) so that they will be able to live and work in their…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries
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Ingram, Ernie; And Others. – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1981
Education North project, begun in 1978, is a strategy designed to change the nature of school-community relationships in selected northern Alberta communities by improving the quality of school experience of children and young people. The implementation of the project is described. (ERB)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Community Involvement
Alberta Univ., Edmonton. The Senate. – 1993
This publication reports on the progress that the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada has made to respond to the higher education needs of the northern region of Canada. In particular this report evaluates the progress made after 3 years on a series of formal recommendations proposed in 1988. The paper lists each of the recommendations and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Distance Education, Educational Needs
Ingram, Ernie; And Others – 1981
Education North is an experimental project to promote community involvement in schools in seven selected towns in northern Alberta (Canada). The project strategy is based on the "local education society" (LES), an autonomous group that develops and operates local programs using government funds, independent of the local education agency…
Descriptors: Administrators, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Wolter, Heidi; And Others – 1989
A project was conducted to improve and expand academic upgrading, job readiness, and special skill training for adults in the Keewatin Region through the implementation of computer-assisted learning (CAL). It was intended as a response to the special needs of unemployed Inuit who were not reached in the past by traditional training programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developed Nations
Trute, Barry; And Others – 1994
This book reports on a 3-year project involving the design and implementation of a coordinated demonstration program for the treatment of child sexual abuse in rural Manitoba (Canada). The purpose of the project was to address problems resulting from child sexual abuse services that are sporadic and uncoordinated in rural Canadian communities.…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attitudes, Child Abuse, Community Involvement
Ingram, E. J.; McIntosh, R. G. – 1981
The report and evaluation of Education North (a project designed to encourage parents, community members, and teachers in small, isolated, primarily Native and Metis communities in northern Alberta to work together to meet community educational needs) is comprised of three parts. Part One presents an update of Education North activities and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Community Education, Community Organizations