[BRIEF NOTE] "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

[rfmcdonald]

Via Facebook, I've learned that the University of Prince Edward Island's English 101 Academic Writing course might be dropped by the university administration. English 101, "a course designed to help you acquire the writing skills you will need in your academic career," these skills including the development of a good writing style and the "fundamentals of writing a research paper," is a mandatory course for UPEI students. A recent request from the English Department that the load of teaching the course be distributed more evenly across the university's departments has been met by a proposal to replace English 101 with a world studies course taught by students.

See these two articles from Charlottetown's The Guardian and CBC Prince Edward Island for more information.