Canadian Politics Today

It starts before they get to university I think.  You should be able to write an adequate essay before you hit first year uni.

I think at the university level not as much is demanded of students as decades past.  There's still some older **** profs out there, pretty rare, that still demand a lot.

I'm not good at math & didn't persue it far so can't comment on that end.  I wonder how they did the test.  Did they test the students on BOTH math and literary skills, because usually uni students will be good at one or the other depending on their program.  The science/math people usually suck at essays & vice versa.

When university was something only a small number of people did it was possible to have higher standards because people who could not meet them had other options. Today university is seen as a necessity which puts pressure on admins to reduce standards to ensure everyone can get their degree. Ironically this undermines the value of the degrees so people end up spending thousands on a piece of paper that is a necessary but not sufficient requirement for a job.

Lots of Canadians are studying abroad as well. Top destination countries are France, UK, and USA; which represents about one third of the total. The number of international students in Canada is about 3 times the number of Canadians studying abroad. Canada is the #4 destination country for foreign students - well done Canadian post secondary institutes.

The purpose of post-secondary education is to educate CANADIANS, not foreigners. if admitting large numbers of foreigners with poor language skills is damaging the education of Canadians then the foreigners should be excluded.

Except that foreign post secondary students do as well or better than their Canadian classmates, and they spend a lot of money in the process.

I don't care how foreign students do. I care about whether they're making it harder for Canadians.
The stories of people in that cite, though they're just individual statements, suggest the level of cheating among them is high, and that administrations are 'encouraging' teachers to just let them through. I don't much like that either.

You don't care how they do? Why would you say that? Is it because they make it hard for Canadians because they simply do well? They pay for their education here while we pay for a good portion of our own people's, which I totally agree with. Many of those foreign students, especially Asians go to work and pay taxes after they graduate. I thinkyour continued fear of them damn fureners is clouding your view, as usual.

Because I don't give a damn about foreigners. The purpose of the Canadian education system is to educate Canadians. If the education of foreigners does not detract from that, then I'm fine with it. If it does, then I'm not.

Foreigners add a LOT of money to the education system. And then many go on to work here and pay a LOT of taxes, and for a long time because they are young. I was in a TD bank in Richmond lately. Most of the tellers were Oriental, all spoke perfect English, knew exactly what they were doing, and I don't think many were much over 30 years old. Would such an environment frighten you? 

University Students from other countries, besides paying much money to study here, become high income and highly productive innovators when they get to stay.  Those I meet from other countries that study here are all high achievers.

Exactly the type of immigrant Sir John claims to like.....     except...  he doesn’t like then either.