By Sascha Bercovitch. Caracas, June 10th 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – In an effort to achieve wage increases, professors at 13 universities across the country have gone on strike, bringing university operations to a halt.
University strikes, normally led by professors and students belonging to the conservative opposition, have become common over the past several years in Venezuela, delaying scheduled classes and often causing students to graduate later than expected.
As the current strikes began at several universities last month, groups in Caracas led a large march throughout the city, during which Minister for University Education Pedro Calzadilla spoke. Read more...

Par Paulo1321. De nos jours, les étudiants américains hésitent de plus en plus à poursuivre leurs études dans leurs propres universités. Certains décident donc d’émigrer dans les Universités canadiennes. Le Canada, nouvelle terre d’accueil ? Dans un contexte où poursuivre ses études, pour un adolescent, devient de plus ne plus difficile financièrement, les américains ont trouvé une solution. En effet, pour pallier aux Université payantes sur le territoire américain, certains étudiants ont décidé de tenter leur chance au Canada. Alors, pourquoi me direz-vous? Eh bien tout simplement parce que les études y sont ‘’facilitées’’. D’après nos confrères de Radio Canada, les frais de scolarité n’excèdent pas 30 000 $ pour les étudiants internationaux. Un avantage certain comparé aux 60 000$ que déboursent les élèves d’une des Universités de Boston… Une autre qualité que proposent les établissements canadiens, l’aspect international. Et plus particulièrement la ville de Montréal. Toujours selon le média canadien, c’est une ville unique en son genre en Amérique du Nord, tant sur le plan linguistique que culturel. Suite de l'article...

As they don their caps and gowns this week, post-secondary class of 2013 grads are facing the future saddled with the highest levels of debt in Canadian history. Federal student debt in Canada exceeds $15 billion, plus another $5 to $8 billion in credit card debts, lines of credit and provincial loans, according to Ottawa.
Calgary's Janene Vermeire, who is a single mother, is leaving Mount Royal University with an honours degree — and $60,000 in debt.
“I can pay it off over a span of 15 years. At what point am I going to get ahead? I'm never going to get ahead. Like, when am I going to start saving money to buy a house?” she said.
According to bankruptcy trustee Shawn Stack, graduates who are struggling can get help restructuring their debts — except the student loan, which can't be restructured for seven years. Read more...

By Peter Hadekel. Development strategies for Montreal often refer to the crucial role that universities play in the local economy. They are major employers and big purchasers of goods and services. They turn out thousands of well-trained graduates each year to meet the needs of the Montreal-area companies that require an educated workforce. Academic researchers generate the bright ideas that sustain today’s knowledge-based economy. Their discoveries lead to the founding of new companies in areas like information technology, telecommunications, life sciences and environmental engineering. But our universities can do a lot better. They lag behind their U.S. counterparts in one key area — the technology transfer that occurs between academic institutions and the private sector. Read more...