{"id":696,"date":"2014-09-17T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/17\/pearson-laurier-school-boards-ink\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:55","slug":"pearson-laurier-school-boards-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/17\/pearson-laurier-school-boards-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson, Laurier school boards ink international partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.newscoverage.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Strapped for cash by provincial government austerity measures, two of Quebec\u2019s largest English school boards intend to fill the gap by selling vocational training to third-world students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn times of budget cutbacks, we have to grow revenue,\u201d Sir Wilfred Laurier School Board (SWLSB) chair Nick Milas said, Sept. 15, after signing a ten-year pact with Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) to attract students from India to study health care here.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, it is all about the money we get,\u201d Milas acknowledged, \u201c[the profits of] which will be coming back to our [Canadian] students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe intend to bring in the first cohorts in January,\u201d LBPSB chair Suanne Stein Day announced. \u201cSWLSB will be hiring all the staff because [the new international school will be on] their territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

LBPSB director general Robert Mills thanked the Quebec and Canadian governments \u201cfor agreeing to help [the prospective students] obtain study visas and a small ability to work during the course of time that they are studying here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mills said that the program\u2019s initial students will learn nursing- and pharmacist-assistant skills and that there is a \u201cpossibility for expansion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Stein Day explained that the SWLSB-LBPSB partnership is a new legal entity that will be overseen by both school boards as well as Edu-Edge, a Toronto-based private corporation that is the third party to the new international education pact.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be subject to audits by both school boards and Edu-Edge will have the option to look at the numbers with their own auditors,\u201d she said of the new arrangement.<\/p>\n

Edu-Edge president Naveen Kolan commended the \u201ctwo large school boards which decided to cooperate rather than compete.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have opened discussions with English Montreal School Board,\u201d Stein Day told The Suburban, <\/i>\u201cbut we are nowhere near any agreement yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a possibility,\u201d she added. \u201cWe\u2019re very willing to work with partners. It helps us to manage the operation without having to hire more staff and the like, and still reap the benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point we haven\u2019t talked to other school boards, but we\u2019re certainly open to it,\u201d Stein Day continued. \u201cWe hope that this agreement sets the stage for all of us to get together and cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n

She emphasized that LBPSB\u2019s existing international campus downtown<\/a>, which teaches accountancy- and computer-related courses to third-world students is a completely separate operation<\/a> that is not part of its new partnership with SWLSB.<\/p>\n

According to LBPSB Commissioner Barbara Freeston, the school board\u2019s moneymaking deal with Edu-Edge \u201csurpassed objectives\u201d last year.<\/p>\n

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\n(Left to right) LBPSB chair Suanne Stein Day, SWLSB chair Nick Milas and director general Stephanie Vucko and Edu-Edge president Naveen Kolan sign ten-year pact at LBPSB’s Dorval headquarters, Sept. 15, as LBPSB International director Carol Mastantuono watches.<\/b><\/div>\n
\n(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n

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