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BCIT Offers High School Grads Credit Initiative

The BCIT Forestry Department and Rutland Senior Secondary school (RSS) in Kelowna have worked together on a dual credit initiative that will enable high school graduates to obtain advanced standing toward the Forestry Certificate program at BCIT. Over the past three years, the faculty at BCIT have assisted Forest Science teachers at RSS in redesigning the Forest Science 11 and 12 curricula to better prepare graduates for the workplace. Graduates of the new “Forest Resource Field Studies” program at RSS will be granted credit for the first term of the Forestry Certificate program at BCIT, if desired, and may then go on to complete the One-year Certificate program as well as enter the Two-year Diploma program with advanced standing.

The first RSS “laddering” student is currently attending the second term of the Forestry Certificate program at BCIT and is scheduled to graduate on June 1st, 2005. The second delivery of the RSS Forestry program is currently being delivered to a (capacity) group of 18, of which approximately 10 have indicated that they do plan on pursuing further Forestry education at BCIT.

For more information on this initiative, contact Wayne Horvath at BCIT: w_horvath@bcit.ca

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