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Ontario's colleges are in crisis and it needs to be an issue in the current election (www.thewhig.com)

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“Not only has (Premier Doug) Ford walked away from post-secondary education, he’s shifted the responsibility of financing our colleges, a public good, onto students and institutions,” JP Hornick, president of OPSEU and faculty at George Brown College, said in a prepared statement.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For some colleges that was true, for others, they fueled unnecessary expansions. Hopefully things balance back out, and we get a government willing to fund things properly.

[–] joshhsoj1902 3 points 3 weeks ago

What is considered an unnecessary expansion? Is this just when they add more variety of classes or start teaching new programs that there weren't enough people to support before?