Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy Simona Chiose. What is the purpose of foreign students? It’s a stark question but one that the federal government is failing to ask in its rush to just increase the numbers. When the goal of raising the number of foreign students in Canada to 450,000 was announced last month, I was reading education news in Spain where students are grappling with their own issues, from an unemployment rate of over 50 per cent to increasing fees for degrees. Read more...