Regional Voices

From the Atlantic Region

CBC Radio Peter Gzowski Internships

The CBC Radio Peter Gzowski Internships were created to honour the memory of Peter Gzowski, author, broadcaster, columnist and literacy advocate.  Memorial University of Newfoundland and its students are excited to be among the four universities nation-wide that participate.  These paid internships, for students in their final year of study include a week of training in the basics of radio production at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto and then four months learning about how great radio is made.

Students at both the Corner Brook campus, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and the St. John’s campus are buzzing about this opportunity and are highly motivated to put together the extensive application package.  CBC explicitly state they are interested in applicants who are curious about the world, engaged in their communities (beyond simply the academic community), are highly creative and can imagine themselves working in public radio.  This validates for students the worth, not just of their academic accomplishments, but also their volunteer and extra-curricular activities as well.  The successful candidate will be publicly announced on March 10, 2005.

For more information, please visit www.cbc.ca/gzowskiinternships

Lisa Russell is the Seniors Arts Career Development Coordinator at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

From Quebec

A Busy Period for the Quebec Guidance Counselors

Have you ever heard about that strange phenomenon of the Quebecers that move to a different apartment all on the same date? Well, in Quebec, if the 1st of July is the moving day, the 1st of March is the admission day!

At the moment, all counselors working in the school sector or with clients that plan to study again are very busy because those students and clients are in a last minute rush to prepare their program admission. The reason this is so important now is because of the famous 1 st of March deadline that all the Quebec trade schools, colleges and universities set for the admission forms to be sent. Actually, all the education institutions use the same date as the deadline to receive the forms from the candidates that want to start a new program in the fallowing fall. Of course, this rule is more important for the programs that have a quota of students and usually have more demands than available places. The school will select the students from the forms they’ll receive on the 1st of March and there are usually no more places for students that would like to try to get in those programs after that.  For the other programs, it is possible to send an admission form after the 1st of March and still get accepted, but this date is still a general deadline that everyone works toward. For the persons that plan to start a program in January, the deadline for admission forms to be sent is the 1st of November.

Nathalie Perreault is a career counsellor from Quebec. She graduated from Laval University where she now teaches one course in the “Sciences de l’orientation” bachelor program. She is also the Program and Content Manager for OrientAction (www.orientaction.ca). She can be reached at admin@orientaction.ca.