What is going to happen to all these men, without post-secondary educations, in the oil and gas, mining, and construction industries when the boom slows down?
Canada’s largest student lobby group the Canadian Federation of Students has brought in lawyers to fight the latest battle in an on-going controversy that erupted when an email detailing campaign plans was mistakenly distributed to reps from all students’ unions in BC
Four out of five young people take some kind of post-secondary education by the time they reach their mid-twenties, according to new Statistics Canada data released Tuesday. But of those, almost one in seven students drop out. It also showed that urban students and those living with both parents more likely to pursue higher education.
Monte Solberg, minister of Human Resources and Social Development Canada, says that there are major policy changes coming for the Canada Student Loan Program. But student borrowers will have to wait until the spring federal budget to find out what to expect.
In 2001 engineering students hung a red Volkswagen Beetle off the iconic San Francisco bridge, complete with a Canadian flag painted on one side and a big red “E” on the other