SUMMARY: "BC Folio" was a weekly program featuring items of interest to BC listeners, including interviews with British Columbians of diverse backgrounds. "BC Folio" was broadcast from 1971 to 1976 on the Paci;fic Network, first on AM and later on FM. This episode is a documentary consisting of interviews and sounds about Frontier College, a non-institutional education program in BC aimed at adding "greater; depths" to the live of people who are undereducated. It is informal in the way that it is an informative program, not a basic classroom school. Sometimes education comes in the form of movies or sem;inars. This is part one of two.;

SUMMARY: "BC Folio" was a weekly program featuring items of interest to BC listeners, including interviews with British Columbians of diverse backgrounds. "BC Folio" was broadcast from 1971 to 1976 on the Paci;fic Network, first on AM and later on FM. This episode is a documentary consisting of interviews and sounds about Frontier College, a non-institutional education program in BC aimed at adding "greater; depths" to the live of people who are undereducated. It is informal in the way that it is an informative program, not a basic classroom school. Sometimes education comes in the form of movies or sem;inars. This is part two of two.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dave McKillup, a Frontier College labourer/teacher at Mica Dam in 1971, tells about his experiences. Dr. George Cook, in charge of the Frontier College program in BC, discusses the concept and its history. Tom Hayes, vice-president, personnel and industrial relations, Columbia Cellulose, discusses his investigation of the work of Frontier College. Tilio Porko, railway worker/labourer-teacher, Frontier College, and Clive Malford, teacher-in-training, Frontier College, tell about their teaching experiences. Hayes tells about first labourer-teachers in the Terrace plant; more discussion by the labourer-teachers. TRACK 2: Hayes tells about reaction to labourer-teachers; George Cook on qualities of labourer-teachers, and problems of assignments. More from labourer-teachers. Cook on size and future of Frontier College.