Nova Scotia

A program committee was formed in January which will be headed by Kaireen Vaisson, Coordinator, Continuing Education, Dentistry Department, Dalhousie University. Christine Ball McKeen, Institute for The Study of Women, MSVU has volunteered to develop a questionnaire and survey the membership for program preferences results to be available for program planning in September.

Joan Brown-Hicks prepared the CCLOW N.S. Brief which has been submitted to the Royal Commission on Post Secondary Education. CCLOW will be represented at the hearing February 18 by Marie Macdonald. Janet Eaton, Joan Brown-Hicks and Linda MacDonald.

Janet Eaton, Joan Brown-Hicks, Marial Mosher all of Halifax and Margot Metcalfe of Sheet Harbor represented CCLOW N.S. at the provincial Secretary of State Consultation held in Halifax in November 1983. CCLOW N.S. is working toward a field worker/coordinator.

A project Advisory Committee composed of Linda MacDonald, Miere Nyenhuis, Janet Eaton has prepared and submitted a proposal to Secretary of State requesting $1,900 to do a survey of learning needs of women in rural Nova Scotia. The project will entail design of a suitable questionnaire, utilization of local CCLOW contacts to perform the survey, training session for the women involved in survey, analysis of data and follow-up session with community contacts reanalysis implications. The information will be used to determine the geographic locations where-in to concentrate field worker services and the kinds of services most required in the individual communities.

The Director for Nova Scotia as Vice-President of CCLOW's, The Continuous Learning Association of Nova Scotia has assisted in the preparation of the CLANS Brief to the Post-Secondary Commission, among other responsibilities. She has been appointed as CCLOW representative to a Provincial Council on Continuing Education which will advise the minister on developments, structure, policy and implementation strategies re continuing education in the province.