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The protests shouldn't be about how much post-secondary costs but rather how post-secondary is so poorly-designed in this country.

Almost everybody goes to University because they want to find a job. This isn't the past anymore where people just went to be enlightened, etc. It's a very practical thing. There was a recent documentary on how bad Canadian universities are at actually matching their courses and preparation with industry with their students. More and more graduates aren't finding work in their fields because Universities don't do enough to actually foster the proper fields and coordinate with industry and business to get students into them. As a result of this, students end up going back to school for even higher education which further removes them from that entry level that they really need to get their foot in the door.

They highlighted the huge glut of students with undergraduate degrees who couldn't find work and therefore went back to school for masters or education degrees... and the Ontario Teacher's College kept accepting people into their education program even though there's a tremendous glut of teachers in that province. They are accepting and churning out like 10 times the teachers that are actually needed. These students come out and are even more screwed than they were after their first round of education with even higher debts and no job prospects.

Sure there needs to be an onus on students to be realistic and do proper research as well but when you are young, dumb, and paying thousands of dollars for a higher education, that institution really should be grounding themselves more realistically as well to do a service for the country that is also subsidizing that institution instead of just putting more students into more seats into useless programs so they can make more money to build new buildings.