New Brunswick Community Colleges (Provincial Correspondence Services), Canada

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Name:

New Brunswick Community Colleges (Provincial Correspondence Services)

Region:

North America - Canada

Description:

In 1974, the Correspondence Service of the New Brunswick Community Colleges became part of the Adult Education Programme. Recently, the Correspondence Service was moved to the Department of Training and Employment Development. It still serves a segment of the academic upgrading programme of Community Services among the Community Colleges and high schools students. There are nine College sites, five of which are anglophone (Miramichi, Moncton, Saint John, Saint Andrews and Woodstock) and four of which are francophone (Bathurst, Campbellton, Dieppe and Edmundston). Distance education is a service provided by all nine Colleges.

The four francophone Colleges offer junior and senior secondary level courses in English, Biology, Chemistry, French, Geography, History, Mathematics and Physics. The five English-Language Colleges offer junior and senior secondary level courses in Accounting, Biology, Canadian Law, Chemistry, English, Mathematics, Physics, and Intermediate Science and Mathematics. In addition, 34 college level courses are available through the English-Language Correspondence Service in the Civil Engineering Technology, Computer/Electronics Engineering Technology, Machinist, Highway Supervisor, Hospitality and Tourism and Business Technology fields.

Address:

Joy Stuart
Manager
NB Correspondence Service (English)
New Brunswick Community College - Moncton
1234 Mountain Road
Moncton
New Brunswick E1C 8H9
CANADA

Phone:

(+1 506) 856-2200 Dieppe or 856-2237 Moncton

Fax:

(+1 506) 856-2125 Dieppe or 869-6530 Moncton

E-mail:

joy.stuart@gov.nb.ca

WWW:

http://nbcc-correspondence.telecampus.com/

Admission:

Applicants must have completed six years of state education and present a grade sheet for their last full year at school. The English-Language Correspondence Service waives the requirement for a grade sheet (transcript).

Services:

Delivery methods include textbooks and printed correspondence texts prepared by the provincial curriculum branch and by the correspondence teachers. Desk-top conferencing packages, like NetMeeting is also used for answering questions. 13 on-line courses (five secondary and eight college) are now available. The URL is http://nbcc-correspondence.telecampus.com/

Registration:

Students who have not previously registered with the Correspondence Service may initially enrol in a maximum of two courses. Students previously registered with the Correspondence Service and who have successfully completed at least one course may enrol in a maximum of three courses.

Applicants in school or of school age must have their application approved by the appropriate authority, either the district superintendent or school principal.

Although applications for correspondence courses can be made at any time during the year, applicants should be aware that each course averages twenty lessons and allowing four to six hours per assignment gives approximately one hundred hours of individual time per course. Students who are in school must complete the assignments at least six weeks before the end of the semester in order to write the examination and submit a final mark to the school or otherwise the Correspondence Service cannot guarantee a final mark on time.

Languages:

English

Overseas enrolment:

Yes - Japan, Germany, Israel, Ireland, France

Statistical summary:

The francophone section has an enrolment in the vicinity of 250 students per year. There are 16 outmarkers for the four colleges. The Campbellton campus has one marker for all subjects. The other three colleges have subjects speciality outmarkers.

The English-Language section has an enrolment of 1000 students per year. There are two markers on site at the Moncton campus marking all lessons.

Date:

10 July 2000 kd

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