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[Victoria Watcher]

I read somewhere (now I forget where) that about 1/3 of the foreign students that cone here on student permit do not even attend a physical class more than once per week.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 August 2023 - 09:23 AM.

[aastra]

 

...about 1/3 of the foreign students that cone here on student permit do not even attend a physical class...

 

That's a pointed comment. Do we look like dunces to you?

[Victoria Watcher]

Canada hosted more than 800,000 international students last year, according to the government's figures. To sustain their studies here, McCartney says many international students pick up low-paying jobs that are difficult to fill with Canadian workers.


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There were 239,131 international students in 2011. In its 2014 plan, the government said it aimed to more than double that number by the end of the decade, as well as increase the number of students who would become permanent residents after graduation.


https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6947913

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 August 2023 - 09:36 AM.

[lanforod]

^ This seems wiser than using TFWs solely; bring in the students, they pay their way at full price, they get a good education*, and some will stay. Yet the government is talking about adding restrictions now, just because of housing? Fix housing, but that aint the way.

*I think they should crack down on institutions that don't provide the promised education, but that's a different issue. As for VW's anecdote re. students who don't actually get that education, if that happens a lot: don't graduate = you can't stay.

[Victoria Watcher]

There are some BC and Ontario private colleges that team with more respected universities further away from Vancouver and Toronto for some programs. And they literally have 6x or 10x more students than they could actually fit into classrooms.

[MysticalWarrior]

Got a few photos of the new Sngequ House that is now open:

 

 

 

One of the new lecture halls inside:

 

[Mike K.]

Nice!

Is that where the prisoners learn arts and welding?

Jk.

When did the building open?

[dkuitu]

Looks like a prototype commie block from the future that all those freedom convoyers have been warning us about.

[Nparker]

Even a prison deserves a name that can be pronounced.

[Victoria Watcher]

Looks like a prototype commie block from the future that all those freedom convoyers have been warning us about.

Thanks, truckers!

[MysticalWarrior]

When did the building open?

 

The lecture halls opened for business starting today, while the actual residences likely opened last week as move-in day was on Saturday. The building was still gated off last I was there August 24th.

[aastra]

Campus aerial video...

[aastra]

So whatever happened to this project? Is it proceeding? I haven't been out UVic way in ages but in drone footage from this past summer there didn't seem to be anything happening in that area.

[lanforod]

Needs more funding to get going. RFP costs came back to high.

[lanforod]

Probably also need to scale the project back a bit.

[aastra]

Understandable. It actually looks decent so I was assuming it was being held up one way or another.*

 

*razzing the UVic boosters

[lanforod]

[Mike K.]

What’s happening there?

[HarrisonGreene]

Law building extension

[MysticalWarrior]

 

 

Wow, they've already started putting it up just as I'm away from campus on co-op  will have to go check it out on one of my days off!

 

I also heard that there's activity going on again for the ECS expansion?

Edited by MysticalWarrior, 27 January 2024 - 01:27 AM.