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The release calls it "a new program to meet the demand for qualified professionals who can navigate Canada's fast-changing, increasingly complex taxation environment". It's offered by the school of accountancy.
Says the news release:
The school is starting a 20-month "Master of Taxation" degree program aimed at university graduates seeking to practise in the tax area. The curriculum has been jointly developed by UW and senior tax professionals. The program will comprise three, four-month academic terms and two, four-month work terms in a tax practice. Students will pay full tuition costs of $8,000 each academic term. . . .Partners in the innovative program are Arthur Andersen, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG and Price Waterhouse. Classes will begin this fall, meeting two days a week in downtown Toronto.
"Our new program responds to a call from business and industry for people who can advise them on how to decrease their tax burden and achieve their corporate goals," said Prof. Jim Barnett, a tax expert and director of the program. "Only specialists can develop and maintain expertise in the tax field now. But the need for such specialists has outstripped the supply." . . .
Although an "MTax" degree will not lead to a Chartered Accountancy designation, this poses no problem, Barnett said, because accounting firms are willing to cast a wide net for the expertise they want. Graduates will be full-fledged tax advisers who can communicate well with clients and integrate tax recommendations into an overall plan. Students enrolling in the program must have an honors degree and prerequisites in taxation, financial accounting and microeconomics.
"There is a strong interest among prospective students," Barnett said. Earlier this year, he ran a national advertising campaign in campus media and professional magazines, and conducted information sessions at several universities.
He and three UW colleagues -- taxation Profs. Stan Laiken, Ken Klassen and Alan Macnaughton -- will head the program's teaching team. As well, adjunct instructors from professional tax practices will be supplied by partnering firms.
And participants in the conference will be practically commuting to Stratford, to see as many as four plays at the Festival.
In yesterday's Bulletin I cavalierly said the conference is an annual activity. Wrong. "It is normally run every two years," says Todd Pettigrew, associate director of the conference, "although this one, the sixteenth, is the first since 1993."
The long-awaited Dearing report on the future of British higher education is being released in two parts; the first has now appeared and the second will be out tomorrow. The government-appointed commission has called for an end to free university education, with fees of about $2,000 (Canadian) per year being introduced starting in the fall of 1999. It also says participation in post-secondary education should increase from the present 35 per cent to 50 per cent. Tomorrow's Bulletin will have a more detailed report on what Dearing has to say.
Hi," writes John Williams on his home page. "I'm a student at the University of Waterloo in a program called Independent Studies. I have just entered my Thesis phase. I'm writing about expert and generative systems for artistic expression." His web site shows off the results. Williams explains:
When I entered the Independent Studies (IS) Program here at UW in the fall of 1994, the Web was just starting to take off (there were no advertising banners yet). I was excited by the possibility of creating an online portfolio and taught myself basic HTML.Williams received his degree in independent studies at the May convocation.My studies in IS focussed for two years on Celtic art. My goal was to analyze patterns in the style of Celtic knotwork in such a way that I could reproduce them via computer. I succeeded in this goal, eventually creating software that allows me to easily create original patterns in color (and to animate them in time to Celtic music). My gallery of computer-generated Celtic knotwork images has brought me email from interested people around the world.
My site also features examples of electro-acoustic music that I've made over the years, animations of Celtic knots, and research information regarding my completed IS Thesis ("The Systemic Arts: Explorations in an Emerging Field"). My initial studies into Celtic art branched out to discuss the computer-aided analysis and reproduction of artistic styles. My Thesis attempts to bring together the work of artists, composers and art-music creators whose work I feel will shape the future of the arts.
CAR
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