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More fallout from years of propping up our higher education institutions with foreign students.
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More fallout from years of propping up our higher education institutions with foreign students.
RE: https://kamloops.social/@local/115986498060775806
For too long universities have ‘padded the books’ by relying on international enrollments. And the provinces have been all-to-happy to sidestep their funding responsibilities. Now that the international student faucet has been turned off there’s reckoning to be dealt with.
ALL BY DESIGN... to justify the cancelling of certain kinds of programs and jacking the tuition/user fees, etc. for others... and screwing Canadian students... among other things.
With a drop in international students, campuses are seeing class waitlists, course cuts and fewer researchers: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/post-sec-fall25-term-start-1.7627938 #polQC #QCpoli #cdnpoli #polcan #cdnedu #QCedu #eduQC #educan
As they buckle down for a new fall term, post-secondary students, faculty, administrators and sector experts are worried, as institutions struggle with plummeting enrolment of students from abroad, financial and other ramifications of federal changes to stem these students and, in several regions, status quo on domestic tuition.
Canada ranks first in the G7 for the share of working-age people (aged 25 to 64) with a college or university credential (57.5%).
For more info from the #2021Census: http://ow.ly/2TQJ50LQZeS. #CdnEdu
The number of degree holders in the working-age population rose by nearly one-fifth from 2016 to 2021, driven by recent immigrants and young adults, but the number of apprenticeship certificate holders in key trades fields declined.
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Parents and experts say irregular bus schedules unfairly single out kids who are already marginalized and causes them to miss class time. School districts say they do their best to get students to class on time within their transportation budgets.