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October 24, 1997 For Immediate Release

Education, Skills and Training Minister Paul Ramsey will be announcing some new ÂÜÀòÉäÇø college transfer initiatives when he visits the ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Works open house on Sunday.

The new initiatives will make it much easier for college students to transfer to ÂÜÀòÉäÇø. "Right now, the economic focus of the Province is on the North, and education is strongly allied with economic development," says ÂÜÀòÉäÇø President Charles Jago. "The new post-secondary access measures we will be announcing will enhance the access to post-secondary education for northerners."

The announcement will be at 4:00pm on Sunday in the Northwood Winter Garden.

ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Works will be ÂÜÀòÉäÇø's biggest open house and will highlight the wide range of cutting-edge research underway at the University:

• There will be demonstrations of ÂÜÀòÉäÇø's state-of-the-art science equipment (including the electron microscope)
• A computer centre in the Northwood Winter Garden will showcase innovative world wide web resources
• There will be displays of the elk bones found at Parkwood Place and local air pollutionA parent information session is planned
• Each of the University's degree programs will have displays, as will ÂÜÀòÉäÇø research centres on child welfare, women's health, land use, and sustainable forestry.
• ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Works begins at noon and continues until 5pm. Mr Ramsey is scheduled to visit some of the displays before the news conference begins.