“You’re picking basket-weaving courses and there’s not too many baskets being sold out there. Go into healthcare, go into trades,” shared Ford. “Those are where the jobs are.”

If Ford was really serious about promoting healthcare and the trades, he would make OSAP loan/grant ratios dependent on the course taken. Make OSAP 90% grant 10% loan for the trades and health care, and 90% loan 10% grant for basket weaving courses.

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[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I would think basket weaving courses are an elective to take as alongside the normal courses. Ofc maybe some people take just those courses for the knowledge. Personally I want to weave my own laundry basket rather then keep buying cruddy plastic ones from walmart.

*Also, those courses might count toward a degree in Art Education, which, IIRC, is part of a psych degree in early childhood development. Really not sure about that though, but it could be something like that.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Doug doesn't understand electives and rounded education. He also recommended programs that are now severely restricted for student numbers because of eight years of chronic underfunding.

He somehow thinks students can just enter any program anywhere. Life Sciences or Health Sciences at McMaster have an entry cutoff of 96 and 94.

There are no degree programs on electives.