I grew up in the Center of the Universe (Toronto). During my first 30 years of life I learned the general attitude of most Torontonians is that anyplace outside of the GTA wasn't worth considering.
In 1990 I moved to St. John's, NL (gasp). It was there that I discovered how wrong the the people in the Center of the Universe were. There are places of worth in the rest of Canada that have high standards of education and community. I had previously completed a 4 year degree programme at Ryerson. In 2000 I went back to college, at CNA, for a three year electronics engineering technology diploma. The education I received there was more intense and challenging then what I received at Ryerson.
In 2004, my wife and I moved to Qatar to teach at CNA-Q. The problems mentioned are true and old news.
The issues posted that the engineering student mentioned can be linked back to QP and Qtel. The insist that the college make courses available outside the scheduled calendar. i.e. Back in NL, if a student fails ET1100 in the fall semester, it isn't offered again until the next fall semester. At CNA-Q, so many courses are trying to be delivered to students who have failed a class that there are not enough instructors to cover them all. It is not uncommon for instructors to be teaching to classes of 2 or three students.
As for the comment that graduating students from CNA-NL not fit for work nothing could be further from the truth. Case in point, the company that I now work for tried to hire grads from the Instrumentation Engineering programme but couldn't since they had all been snapped up by companies in Western Canada.
I grew up in the Center of the Universe (Toronto). During my first 30 years of life I learned the general attitude of most Torontonians is that anyplace outside of the GTA wasn't worth considering.
In 1990 I moved to St. John's, NL (gasp). It was there that I discovered how wrong the the people in the Center of the Universe were. There are places of worth in the rest of Canada that have high standards of education and community. I had previously completed a 4 year degree programme at Ryerson. In 2000 I went back to college, at CNA, for a three year electronics engineering technology diploma. The education I received there was more intense and challenging then what I received at Ryerson.
In 2004, my wife and I moved to Qatar to teach at CNA-Q. The problems mentioned are true and old news.
The issues posted that the engineering student mentioned can be linked back to QP and Qtel. The insist that the college make courses available outside the scheduled calendar. i.e. Back in NL, if a student fails ET1100 in the fall semester, it isn't offered again until the next fall semester. At CNA-Q, so many courses are trying to be delivered to students who have failed a class that there are not enough instructors to cover them all. It is not uncommon for instructors to be teaching to classes of 2 or three students.
As for the comment that graduating students from CNA-NL not fit for work nothing could be further from the truth. Case in point, the company that I now work for tried to hire grads from the Instrumentation Engineering programme but couldn't since they had all been snapped up by companies in Western Canada.