Canada

Yea, this is stupid. One of my clients is a public college, and they're already hurting. They already cut a bunch of programs to save the rest. A new round of international student cuts is going to gut so many more that they just worked so hard to save.

Most collegiate institutions in Canada have been going gangbusters for 20 years building new facilities and just generally being stupid with money, cutting down on tenured professors, loading up on administrators.

Like. Maybe some very poor decisions have been made for which there are consequences.

If they were underfunded and hurting for money then why would we do this? If they're underfunded and hurting for money now then why would we provide it when they were so irresponsible with it?

There could be nuance to this situation i don't understand but from my POV our higher educational institutions need to get their fucking shit together.

It's a good thing that university funding is provincial. Maybe they should stop cutting the funding and giving it to rich people, I'm looking at you Doug Ford.

Once they come for the universities, you know whats up. Happened in nazi germany, where they burned intellectual property including but not limited to the studies of the university of berlin about gender theory.

At the same time, the feds want to

recruit more than 1,000 top international researchers to Canada, with the budget injecting up to $1.7-billion into a suite of recruitment measures.

That'll be tough if universities see their income crater.

What do you think the $1.7B is supposed to cover?

They're trying to end low tier colleges just pumping through international students to inflate their financials, and instead trying to poach all the H1-B researchers in the US that are being scared away.

Somehow I doubt their budgets shortfall and spending choices are only because government wont give these private for profit institutions enough free money.

It's the perfect crime! The feds create a problem with a solution that's under provincial jurisdiction...

I know people who were qualified for graduate school, but did not get in. Mainly because foreign students pay better. There would actually be a more diverse/enjoyable university experience if more Canadians (say at least half of students) were admitted.

Sweet talking conman right there.

Entirely anecdotal, but a University I was attending almost went bankrupt during the pandemic because no one was paying for parking. Like, just losing that income almost destroyed it. I'm not sure Carney, who has never had to worry about rent, can really understand that.