Governments need to get back to investing in our publicly funded universities and colleges. Colleges and universities are broke from government underfunding and are turning to foreign students to fill the gap.
Provinces (especially the Ford government in Ontario) changed the laws, letting private colleges (and private satellite colleges tied to public colleges) run amok, scamming foreign students and benefiting the companies that want to turn our education system into a cash cow.
We should have a robust public education system that is attracting foreign students and providing them with the same quality of education available to domestic students. The players that look at our education system and see $$$ signs need to go.
This episode of Wag the Doug provides decent background about how the Ford government’s legislative changes and underfunding of public colleges led them to partner with private institutes to juice the number of foreign students for more cash.
Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)
‘It’s too powerful a technology’
Toronto Star owner cutting 600 jobs at regional papers, seeking bankruptcy protection for unit (www.cbc.ca)
Want to ease Canada’s housing crisis? Let’s start by being responsible about international student visas (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Granting an ever-growing number of student visas to people we know will struggle to find housing is unethical at best and fraudulent at worst....
if only i could live with postman pig (i.imgur.com)