> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This is not an interesting new phenomenon, it's a variation of "affirmative action" and other programs of the same nature. Some people will call it addressing systemic discrimination, others will call it discrimination. A few decades ago, the expression in favour was, "reverse-discrimination."
It has absolutely been covered on TV news and in newspapers going back decades.
In any event, it is not about startups, or hacking. Nor is it particularly interesting, or new. It's just throwing red meat on the front page to generate karma.
The sad truth about a lot of Canadian universities is this - they are entirely funded by foreign money (through international students). There is a specific university in Montreal named Concordia University which was so overwhelmingly structured to use this scheme it is almost called "Passport to Canada" back home - over 50% students there are international students. They charge the international students almost 5 times than normal Quebec students.
So it would not shock me if this whole thing is just aimed at taking the eyes off the simple fact that most universities education (esp graduate school) has become a way to legitimizing second degree slavery by bringing in foreign students with outrageous tuition scheme and at the same time providing someone graduating from Canadian university with little incentives since the wages are so low from TA. As long as there are countries with poor conditions people want to come here it will go on like that. Like all the things these academic elites do, there is no incentive to actually end discrimination.
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This is not an interesting new phenomenon, it's a variation of "affirmative action" and other programs of the same nature. Some people will call it addressing systemic discrimination, others will call it discrimination. A few decades ago, the expression in favour was, "reverse-discrimination."
It has absolutely been covered on TV news and in newspapers going back decades.
In any event, it is not about startups, or hacking. Nor is it particularly interesting, or new. It's just throwing red meat on the front page to generate karma.
So it would not shock me if this whole thing is just aimed at taking the eyes off the simple fact that most universities education (esp graduate school) has become a way to legitimizing second degree slavery by bringing in foreign students with outrageous tuition scheme and at the same time providing someone graduating from Canadian university with little incentives since the wages are so low from TA. As long as there are countries with poor conditions people want to come here it will go on like that. Like all the things these academic elites do, there is no incentive to actually end discrimination.