More big cuts to Universities and Colleges in Canada/BC.

This time it's smaller colleges in the Interior of BC. Coast Mountain College in Prince Rupert/Northwest, and Selkirk College in the SE/Nelson.

The Hazelton campus of CMC is being closed as is the Fine Arts campus of Selkirk.

All because successive Provincial and Federal governments in Canada thought the gravy-train of International students would last forever, allowing them to redirect funding for Post Secondary to other parts of the budget.

I don't think the system has found the bottom yet, and at the end, it will be Domestic students who suffer most from hugely diminished services at their local, and regional, and national colleges and Universities.

#Education #CanPoli #CdnPoli #PostSecondary #Investment

edit: the article is by @akurjata

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coast-mountain-college-hazelton-closing-campus-cuts-9.6946111

Very glad to finally see this issue being addressed in a major publication. The headline is a little confusing. It’s not about engineering, it’s about all disciplines.

Even as we have made gains getting women into post secondary now young men are not coming, aside from a few specific traditional areas. Especially in Arts and Humanities, there is a huge gap. I see it every day at my university.

We need to reverse this. We need men and women in every field and discipline. We need men and women learning critical thinking, learning history, learning biology, learning engineering, together, collaboratively, in ways that speak to all genders.

I blame a large part of the gap on a notion that is still perpetuated by both regular people and government, that “trades gets u a job” with implicit and explicit bias toward those trades being male dominated. The manosphere often degrades traditional “thinking” degrees as not masculine enough.. or have been “woke” and a threat to stereotypical male roles. Plus there remain biases against teaching and healthcare as “women’s” work in those influential spheres, and not helped by general society either.

TLDR: we just need to stop devaluing post-secondary every other moment of the day and make it free and easy for absolutely anyone to walk in and expand their minds!

#viu #university #postsecondary #canada #education #gendergap #men #manosphere
https://archive.ph/NhuKo

Student Union rally and protest in the quad at VIU for better funding of Post-Secondary. CHEK TV is here as well.

#BCPoli #BCEdu #PostSecondary #Cuts #Austerity #Education #University #VIU

Toronto Star: “New numbers reveal 10,000-plus Ontario college layoffs, 600 programs cancelled or suspended over past year”

The bloodbath in our higher education system in Canada has gotten NO press even though provincial governments and likely federal KNOW. This is the first in depth article I have seen. ALL governments micro-manage university and college policy/finances, no matter what they might say to the contrary.

Here are some truths you need to know:
Yes, I am biased as a 25 year employee of a University.

Yes, my University has also had completely unprecedented cuts in the past 12-24 months, with more coming.

Yes, it is because of the loss of International Students and their tuition revenue. Without that loss, many domestic enrollment numbers have actually been growing, but the money per student is orders of magnitude less. (ie. International was a cash cow)

Yes, faculty and even many admin, have been warning about the government downloading funding onto International tuitions for decades.

Yes, government will claim they are “investing more than ever”, but this is usually about Capital expenses (buildings, residences, infrastructure) or meeting contractual increases for staff salaries, *not* operating expenses.

Yes, in BC in the 1980s 80-90% of a University or College operating budget was covered by “base funding” from the province. Now, it is often below 50%. (If this makes you ask… is it still a “public University system”, please do!!)

And finally, yes, if we want to consider ourselves a modern country, we cannot possibly think this kind of contraction in educational opportunity (while domestic tuitions continue to increase!) is at all healthy for our society as a whole.

Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/new-numbers-reveal-10-000-plus-ontario-college-layoffs-600-programs-cancelled-or-suspended-over/article_4f1c1f0d-641d-434d-8f9d-a76256a60c54.html

Free Archive link: https://archive.is/oS7rR
#canpoli #cdnpoli #education #internationalEd #immigration #postsecondary #educationShouldBeFree

“"We don't rise by proving each other wrong. We rise by refusing to let one another go," Jiang Yurong said on Thursday”

#China #USA #Education #InternationalEducation #ForeignStudents #Harvard #PostSecondary #Canada
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c787xv2xy1zo