Vancouver Community College • Volume 1, Number 19 - June 29,1993

College
quickens pace
for evaluating
cost-saving

ideas

The College's Administration Council

Lewingdon, Career Division Chair-KEC,

voted Monday to strike a six-person task force

Abby Rose of the City Centre Student Asso¬

to urgently begin reviewing the defldt-reduc-

ciation, Heather Morin of the Langara Stu¬

ing ideas from employees.

dent Union and a representative from the
KEC Student Association to be named later.

The task force will address those sugges¬
tions which do not affect the collective agree¬

Added Cruickshank: "There is no way of

ments, while those proposals with contract

knowing atthis pointhowmany of the sugges¬

implications will be handled through union-

tions will be adopted, how much money will

management processes which are already in

be saved, or how many jobs might be spared

place.

because of those savings. But I can say for sure
that every idea will receive serious attention."

The Task Force for Non-Collective
Agreement Proposals was established prima¬
rily as a screening committee. Its immediate
assignment is to categorize the employee pro¬

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Government planning
to merge ministries?

posals and report back to the Administration

President John Cruickshank reported

Council at the July S meeting. Over the next

from last week's Premier's Summit on Skills

several months the task force will provide the

Development Training that there is a move

AC with an estimate of savings or revenues

afoot to establish one focused ministry for all

from each idea and the impact on the 1993 /94
and 1994/95 budgets.

education, training, skill development and
labour force issues.

President John Cruickshank said that

He noted an apparent consensus on a

about 300 cost-saving ideas have been re¬

number of concepts that developed during the

ceived through the Exchange Line and depart¬

summit:

ment and divisional meetings.
"The suggestions cover a broad range,"
said Cruickshank. "Some of them will be con¬

sidered by the Administration Council as a
whole, while others will be referred back to
the campuses and dealt with at that level."

* The government should examine legislation
and administrative practices to ensure con¬

sistency in planning for skills development
and training.
* There is a need to establish a user friendly
data base to support planning for vocational
education.

The task force membership includes:

Richard Pearce, Acting Director of College

* That there be a "Partidpaction" type cam¬

Resources and Organizational Development,

paign to promote an attitude shift and develop

Gail Rochester, Acting Director of CE, Sam

a learning culture around the concept of skills
Continued on the other side...

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* Educational partnerships that are required

Several people phoned the Exchange

with labour and business need to be facilitated
and led by government, and then left to thrive

ter is being sent via private courier to the

on their own.

campuses.

* Language skills for immigrants must be de¬
livered in a job context, as has become the
model at VCC.

Line to complain that the Exchange newslet¬

Not any more.

Future editions will be delivered by the
College courier, resulting in a savings of
about $600 a year.