I was reading an article in The Toronto Star yesterday about the number of university applicants, and how Canadian universities can’t handle the load. You can read the full article here:
I thought David Foot’s response was very disappointing and the tone of the article was basically that we could just wait any the problem would solve itself. Lets be clear about what that means though, if 10,000 apply and there are only funds for 2,000 people then 8,000 are not getting education. So if we do nothing these people are not getting educated and have a decrease ability to earn money and contribute to our economy. Does that sound like an acceptable solution?
I think this is a key function of government and they should be well prepared to handle these situations. They have access to birth records for everyone in Canada, every 5 years we do a census to ensure everyone is alive and kicking… It SHOULD be pretty easy to project the require university resources based on this information. In anycase, I hope the echo generation doesn’t get screwed in all this…