Morneau facing high hopes that 2019 budget will help students study abroad GlobePolitics
Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said that skills training will be a key part of his March 19 budget, which is the Liberal government’s fourth and final budget before it seeks re-election this October.Universities Canada president Paul Davidson said employers want workers who have some international experience, yet Canadian students fall well behind other countries when it comes to gaining foreign experience as part of their postsecondary education.
One of the reasons policy experts are expecting action on this front in the budget is due to a line in Mr. Morneau’s November fall update, which said Global Affairs Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada will work to develop a new “international education strategy.”Mr. Morneau has said that his budget later this month will include a focus on four issues: skills training, seniors, housing measures aimed at millennials and the cost of pharmaceuticals.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former policy adviser, Roland Paris, co-authored a 2017 paper with former federal deputy minister Margaret Biggs that included detailed recommendations on how the government could fund incentives for students to study abroad. The research found that only 11 per cent of Canadian undergraduates go abroad for at least part of their degree programs. In contrast, the percentage is 16 per cent in the U.S., 19 per cent in Australia and 33 per cent in France.
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