Bridging the Gap
External Evaluator Monthly Report
February 1 – 28, 2003

Activities:

• Reviewed the thoughts of the Co–ordinators on their "Lesson's Learned" to date. This will be compiled into one document
• Working with the Financial Co–ordinator to determine the cost per participant of BTG. This is an ongoing process and requires inputs from several different places. We now have more of a final document on this.
• Received and reviewed a variety of reports and minutes from the 5 sites, the Program Co–ordinator and the Provincial Co–ordination Team.
• Reviewed and commented on Michelle's draft "Roles of the Skill Set Designer" document.
• Met with the Provincial Project Co–ordinator on a variety of issues around the project. We had a good discussion around the future structures for BTG based upon the lessons being learned from the current pilot. We also reviewed suggested changes to the Social and Economic Landscape documents
• Met with the Provincial Project Co-ordinator and representatives of the College of the North Atlantic (Brenda Reid, Clarenville ADA, Marilyn Coles–Hayley, Regional DA, and Blake Cryderman, Chair of International and Contract Training) regarding whether the College is interested in participating in further BTG based upon their experience with this pilot. There are several issues here, not the least of which is financial. I am interested in knowing whether the College is making, losing or breaking even on this project. There are many "uncounted" costs they are able to incur (teleconferences, for example) that are explicit costs to them and are in the budget as "Contribution in Kind" when they are there at all.
• Established times and processes to meet (over telephone) with the Co–ordinator, Academic Instructor and the students in Port Hope Simpson
• Monitoring several issues, including Worker's Compensation and the way operations in Burgeo always seem to be "different" than elsewhere – it will be important to tease out and understand why this happens.