online courses
Queen’s University Math Requirements
Queen’s University offers a nice feature for prospective university students, a blog where they post up-to-date announcements, such as their New Math-Old Math conversion chart. November 8′s entry MCB, MGA, MDM, MCV, MHF – Oh my! leads students to a page from Queen’s website that describes the math requirements for all programs, as well as [...]
The 5P university admissions strategy – Program
In an info session for parents held at a local library earlier this month, a US educational counselor, Matthew Greene, describes what he calls his “5Ps” of university admission: program, performance, preparation, passion and presentation Here’s my take on these strategies for Ontario home schoolers, starting with the first one. Program: For traditionally-schooled students, this [...]
Change to online learning registration policies
Just when you thought Ontario was making progress in the arena of student choice . . . a slight, administrative change to public school’s reporting procedures might spell big trouble for students wanting to register for high school credits through an online provider, such as AMDEC. Here’s the basic nature of the changes: (Note: Since [...]
