Ford fordert Studenten auf, im Zuge der OSAP-Kürzungen keine „Korbflechtkurse“ zu belegen
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-osap-cuts-9.7094009
Ford fordert Studenten auf, im Zuge der OSAP-Kürzungen keine „Korbflechtkurse“ zu belegen
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-osap-cuts-9.7094009
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It’s pretty easy to say shit like this when you’re largely on a tax payer funded vacation for most of the year. Also, countries with the best student aid systems are the ones where it’s tuition free, universities are funded properly by the government, and students are not forced to take crazy loans to cover their education. What Ford is doing is the anti thesis of that, and it’s backwards, and out of touch with what actually works in reality. Definitely, not evidence-based politics.
Interesting coming from a guy who dropped out of college to work at his dad’s company and later be made president of said company.
The college dropout has thoughts about which courses students should take after strangling the education system for 7 years with tuition freezes and funding cuts. 😒
Kids can’t predict the future to see what degrees will have value. Everyone said to go into computer science and now apparently those degrees will be worthless with AI. Conversely, some humanities degrees are associated with a significant boost to life time earnings e.g. philosophy.
The labour market is notoriously fickle. It’s not a personal failing if someone studied computer programming or graphic design five years ago and is getting killed by AI
The only thing worse than hearing this sort of advice from a nepobaby like Ford is knowing how many blue collar people will nod along, thinking that this is punishing “woke people”, without realizing it’s *their own* kids who will suffer the most from these kinds of policies.
He inherited a multi-million-dollar label empire built by his dad, ran it into the ground while paying himself a fat salary, and still calls it ‘hard work.’ He is the textbook definition of someone born with a silver spoon.
No problem, Douggie. Which is the job of the ‘future’ I should focus on?
You mentioned health care, but you are cutting funding there too.
I wonder what he considers “basket weaving” to be? Obviously it’s not STEM, medicine, or law. I’m assuming fields like social work, ECE, and psychology aren’t lumped in there either.
At the university level I’m guessing he means gender studies, education, humanities/anthropology, etc. At the college level basically all of them at this point (except ones related to those above or skilled trades) given how worthless many of the diplomas and schools have become.
Giving Ford another mandate was one of the worst political mistakes the plurality of the Ontarian electorate has made since 2000.
Man without degree suggests youth do not seek the ability to think critically. Classic conservative since the ability to think critically allows people to challenge conservative talking points.
You say that Doug until the price of baskets you can get from China skyrocket! And we need to make our own baskets!!!!
I’m only slightly kidding. Because unless you have a crystal ball there’s no way to know what the jobs of the future are. When I went to school, and still now, thousands of people take Accounting courses. Accounting will be 100% automated and run by AI within years; not decades but years.
My adult daughter has an undergrad degree in Dance and English. And of all the things she studied it was dance that kept her consistently employed as a dance instructor for children and adults even part time as she pursued other work. Doug would say that a dance degree, or a music degree or a film/theatre degree is useless stuff. But the film production industry brings a lot of money to Toronto and musicians can do anything from teach kids how to play an instrument to play music at weddings and parties. So gimme a break Doug…. an educated citizen is a valuable citizen regardless of what degree they took in school.
I went to school and graduated with an advanced degree in an in-demand STEM field. Even with co-ops and grants, I ended up with $30,000 in OSAP loans.
So yeah this guy with a high school diploma can get fucked.
Speaking of, where is the RCMP with their investigation into corruption?
Literally saying what every Canadian has been saying themselves for years…
Don’t go to college or university with zero goals in mind just to end up with 4 years of student loan debt for money you borrowed from tax payers and absolutely nothing to show for it!
The entire point of tax payer provided student loans is to help support people to become better contributors to society. Whether that’s healthcare, education, knowledge, trades, or any of the other options you have.
I guess basket-weaving is the new „feminist dance therapy“ boogeyman? Sounds like more of a trade school thing.
Conservatives love to throw these kinds of comments around as if the cuts don’t equally affect students going into engineering, medicine, nursing, etc. You know, non-basket-weaving curricula.
Instead of actually explaining their justification for these decisions all we get is more scolding, finger-wagging, and diversions from Ford and his government.