Liberal Swedish MEP Cecilia Wikström tells The Local about a new EU directive that will allow greater opportunities for non-EU students who wish to study and work in Sweden.
Back in 2011, the Swedish government introduced tuition fees for students from outside the EU, prompting the precipitous drop in the number of non-EU students studying in Sweden. More...

By Karen Kleiss. Critics blame 'draconian' budget cuts for lowered access to classes. A new report issued by a coalition of student groups shows the vast majority of Alberta's post-secondary education students believe government should take steps to make education more accessible and affordable. Nine in 10 students place high importance on a postsecondary education system that has "affordable" and "predictable costs," while more than 80 per cent say government can decrease debt loads and increase participation rates by offering more grants and bursaries that need not be repaid. More...

David Helfand. Education today provides excellent preparation for a job – in the 19th-century. This is not terribly surprising, as both our curriculum and our modes of delivery were developed in the 19th-century. There’s only one problem: We live in the 21st-century. It takes 5 milliseconds to communicate with someone in Europe, not 5 weeks. It takes half a dozen robots to assemble an automobile, not 100 factory workers. Everything has changed – except education. More...

By Karen Seidman. As countries compete for the most engineers and scientists, and the greatest technological and medical breakthroughs, and as funding to universities is being cut, the need for humanities in higher education is being questioned.
At a forum at McGill University on Tuesday debating the relevance of humanities education, about 40 academics and students who gathered in the arts building lamented the economic realities of the world today that pressures students to take programs that lead directly to jobs.
Yet enrolment in McGill’s humanities programs — which typically include literature, history, languages, the arts, philosophy and religion — has been steady, or increasing slightly, said Maggie Kilgour, who organized the event. More...

By Frances Willick. A coalition of groups concerned about the state of post-secondary education is calling on the provincial government to increase funding to higher education, and says it has the support of Nova Scotians behind it.
A new Nova Scotia Post-Secondary Education Coalition poll found that 60 per cent of those surveyed believe government funding should comprise a larger portion of university and college budgets — and they are willing to pay higher taxes to make education more affordable.
The report, called Building for the Future, polled 800 Nova Scotians over seven days in December. More...

By Carys Mills. Splitting summers working at a grocery store and students’ union never made Nicole Desnoyers enough money to pay her University of Ottawa tuition on time.
Not with other bills, rent to pay and books to buy, said Desnoyers, 21, now in her fourth year of the women’s studies program.
So each August, left with few options, Desnoyers missed her tuition payment deadline, knowing the result would be late fees. “We can’t afford our tuition even after four months of solid work if you’re working a minimum-wage job,” she said. More...

By Don Macpherson. News judgment is a subjective thing. One day last week, our friends at Le Devoir decided that the most important story to its readers, the one deserving the most prominent play on its front page, was about a possible “drift toward English” at the Université de Montréal.
“Students denounce laxity in the application of the (university’s) language policy,” the subhead said.
Actually, it was two students, out of the approximately 1,000 undergraduates in the U de M’s law faculty. Neither of the two represented the faculty’s entire student body.
One was the vice-president of the university’s Parti Québécois student association. The other was the president of its association of sovereignist students. More...

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