Die University Canada West entlässt 240 Mitarbeiter und Lehrkräfte unter Berufung auf lähmende Beschränkungen für die Einschreibung internationaler Studierender
https://vancouversun.com/news/university-canada-west-lays-off-240-staff-citing-international-student-enrolment-caps
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Well thats too bad but when you use international students to grow yourself too big and charge exorbitant admission fees well what did you expect to happen. Ofc the balloon would pop eventually
Womp womp. Well anyways.
Universi-who???
Anyways
14,000 “MBA” students per year. Lol
A private for-profit university owned by an offshore company that was essentially a degree mill for foreign students and used by said students as a pathway to landed status in Canada. Accredited solely in British Columbia (and a controversial accreditation) and a degree from it carries no weight with employers elsewhere.
I dare say were one to present a degree from UCW to a prospective employer in Ontario they would laugh you out of the office.
The professor said one of his colleagues, who was also laid off, had come out of retirement on Vancouver Island to take a job at the university.
“How is this fair?” the professor asked. “I also moved for this job.”
The laid-off University Canada West professor said he doubts the institution will be able to maintain its academic standards with fewer staff. In September, he said the university required faculty to sign a new contract that reduced paid vacation time from eight weeks to four.
“At this point, I don’t know where I will go. I hope to find a dishwashing job in the interim, or a warehouse job, so that I can stay in the city.”
Awww. Poor for-profit business designed to fleece international students who don’t know better. I’m sorry for any faculty who were hoping to make a living until they could get a job in a public college or university, but the writing was in the wall the last year or so.
I bet you they are well under the cap. Nobody wants your crappy degrees if you aren’t selling a PGWP attached to it.
It was just a front to sell work permits.
Oh no! A stick in the mill has clogged the scam/exploitation factory! 😩
Student mill grift is over. Good riddance
University of who?
From an outsider’s perspective, the underfunding of college and universities has been unsustainable for years. Domestic tuition increases (set by government) are often below inflation while staff wages have continued to increase at about inflation
Those institutions, often reputable, figured out how to close their finance gaps through marketing expensive programs to foreign students
Once word got out about the profitability of attracting foreign students, a whole lot of less reputable programs and institutions sprung up
Standards for admissions dropped through the floor and hundreds of thousands of people from around the world invested their family’s life savings in diploma mills
So, underfunding of public institutions led to market solutions which resulted in unintended consequences
We screen out “University” like these. After a couple of interviews with low quality candidates, their grads aren’t worth our time.
University? More like a backdoor for South Asians to enter Canada.
cant beleive they let places like this call themselves universities
As expected with diploma mills. No one who grew up in Vancouver considers University Canada West to be a serious school.
Finally some good news
We ain’t losing the cure for cancer at UCW
That’s a convenient excuse, UCW has always been a school built on an unstable foundation.
Even before the cap on international students, UCW was already experiencing financial and recruitment problems. It was close to bankruptcy in 2018, the Eminata Group took it over, and then it was sold again to Global University Systems in 2014.
Calling this diploma mill “university” is quite the stretch. And while we are on the topic, focusing your whole operation on milking international students on 3X tuition fees wasn’t only inadequate, but a massive exposure that ended up backfiring as expected
– Citing crippling international student enrolment caps.
„We aggressively expanded our business empire to take advantage of the fact that a international student population of 5% was permitted, despite it destroying the shelter market, job market, social services and the sort, as if this was sustainable and could be taken to the bank.“
I feel bad for this guy, but the people running the university need no sympathy
lol bye
It’s crazy I’ll go on LinkedIn and I’ll see so many people with degrees from these type of schools
Sounds like an institution that needs to be destroyed.
*moarrrrrrrrrrrr* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Only our governments look at these institutions as having any value worth protecting
Good riddance. Establishment’s path to profits depended on breaking local societal capacity and safety nets. AND there was zero betterment to any part of society, local or across the nation. Even the villages where the foreign students come from suffer from this fraud.
Good? Sounds like this school was barely even a school, and that its sole existence was to push people through to gain PR.
The for profit school system in India is as bad unfortunately. Small private schools started popping up all over from 2010 on. I visited my 2013 with a newly accredited school teacher friend who had family there. They occasionally mentioned how many schools were outright scams and fleeced students. Sad situation and some parents took on large debt to cover tuition and expenses, and smart kids got shafted. Inevitably there were suicides tied to it.
Of course all scammer types will lure victims using any sort of bait, education schemes are just one method. Lately in India it’s online Russian scammers shifting to fake jobs offers and task scams, hiring anon kids online pretending they’ll get paid to do small tasks. The job offer bait is more sinister, people travel far for what they thinking is a legit interview only to find they’re kidnapped, held for ransom, and some even forced to fight in Putin’s war against Ukraine.