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.