Advanced Education and Skills

NDP Advanced Education and Skills critic Dale Kirby (MHA, St. John’s North) says a program that helps people with disabilities access post-secondary education and training is in limbo, with applicants being told it is “under review” even as they attempt to finalize their arrangements for college or university studies in the fall.

MR. SPEAKER: The Member for The Straits – White Bay North.

NDP Advanced Education and Skills critic Dale Kirby (MHA, St. John’s North) says the cuts to a Labrador campus of the College of the North Atlantic make no sense, particularly in view of promises made to the people of Labrador about employment on new development projects.

MR. SPEAKER: The Member for St. John’s North.

MR. KIRBY:Mr. Speaker, over half of the instructors at the Happy Valley-Goose Bay campus of the College of the North Atlantic have lost their jobs due to Budget cuts and the elimination of core training programs.

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NDP Advanced Education and Skills Critic Dale Kirby (MHA, St. John’s North) says the provincial government is not living up to its own commitments to the people of Labrador.

NDP Leader Lorraine Michael (MHA, Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi) used the somewhat delayed Question Period today to chastise government for its bad financial planning and for its apparent inability to connect fiscal dots.

NDP Advanced Education and Skills Critic Dale Kirby (MHA, St. John’s North) says government’s budget-related cuts to post-secondary education will cause irrevocable damage to rural areas while working against the expanding need for skilled workers.

NDP Advanced Education and Skills Critic Dale Kirby (MHA, for St. John's North) is circulating a petition on behalf of ABE students at the College of the North Atlantic. The petition calls on the House of Assembly to reinstate the Adult Basic Education programming at CNA.

Dale Kirby (MHA, St. John’s North), NDP Critic for Advanced Education and Skills, says federal and provincial Conservative plans to change the funding and delivery of Adult Basic Education programs will result in the complete dismantling of an already under-resourced program area.

NDP MHA Christopher Mitchelmore (The Straits-White Bay North) fears the Budget 2013 changes to Adult Basic Education program delivery will impact operations, and possibly the overall viability of the St. Anthony College of the North Atlantic campus.