Natasha Mrkic Subotic, employed at Capilano University in B.C., has written an op-ed about the new state of post-secondary education:
With new global attraction strategies, Canada is trying to draw talent from abroad but neglecting the systems that nurture our own youth.
B.C.’s institutions, and their counterparts across the country, are confronting a financial reckoning more than a decade in the making.
What comes next may reshape how Canadians learn, work and access opportunities for decades.
The seeds of today’s crisis were planted as far back as 2011, when the federal government signalled a bold new direction. Economic plan 2011 called for a comprehensive International education strategy. This direction was amplified in 2013 when the global markets plan identified international education as one of 22 priority sectors where Canada held a competitive advantage.
Of course, given her own biases, she spins things in a very particular way. There is an entirely different point of view on this subject.
Scrubbed account? Anyhow let me tell you all how bad it is:
Short after Shiny Pony’s debut, the floodgates of International Students (“IE”) were swing wide open. Within the BC Post-Secondary system (“PS”), it was pedal-to-the-metal: take in as much IE as possible (to the point that 50% of a classroom was IE). The cash windfall was amazing, and much capacity was built on this. Instructors were hired, admin was bloated, buildings were built, AWS and Microsoft were contracted. Then all of a sudden, the plug was pulled. Not a warn, not a sign. Just “poof”. Then the layoffs, the “early retirement packages”, the “voluntary terminations”. As far as I know, some sort of “consolidation” is being announced in March in BC. It is possible that a whole sector of the economy will be erased.
Many think that the post-secondary sector is way overvalued. As a member of that guild, I do stand with you on that sentiment. But what was done here is borderline criminal: pull so many into an industry that, by government fiat, could be shut down.
I cannot complain. I got into this teaching business over 20 years ago, after 10 years in the private sector, and still employed. Love it, keeps me young. But, again, the criminal enterprise that changed it into a cash cow should NEVER, EVER be “government” again.
End of rant. And “thank you for your attention to this matter”.
Same in Ontario, just a little later. My local Conestoga College just announced a new round of layoffs. In the meantime, they had built new buildings over the last few years, with the Chancellor putting his own name on the biggest, shiniest new building. The city of Brampton is facing a real estate crisis, people bought homes with little down and rented them out to a dozen or so Indians. All gone, along with their ability to pay the mortgage.
We’ve successfully turned Canadian schools into branches of the University of Phoenix. Mass marketing of mediocre education. If we want to do some good, set up a 10,000 student university in Africa with Canadian profs where you can get a first world quality education not receptive to corruption. And let the Chinese pay for their own effing universities.
…and the Indians.
“…Canada is trying to draw talent from abroad but neglecting the systems that nurture our own youth.”
What youth? Canada’s rulers have spent decades removing every incentive their tax- and debt-slaves had to reproduce themselves at all. The only use those rulers have for the minority of Canada’s youth that are still mentally and physically healthy is as cannon fodder in a future genocidal war against Russia.
Canada’s universities no longer serve a purpose except as finishing schools for the children of Chinese Communist Party officials and a source of income for their Canadian vassals.
“Can Canada’s Post-Secondary Institutions Get Past Their Foreign Money Addiction?”
A) No.
B) This is a good thing, given what they’ve been doing to us since the 1960s.
Faster, please.