Friend is out of an education
4 or 5 of my former classmates have been laid off at some point this year. They all worked in media – whether it was a cameraman, or audio sound booth, or on-air personality, or script writer, etc. The market is tough out there, and everyone is trying to cut back.
Well, I just found out yesterday that another classmate – who actually went back to school in order to sharpen his skills and kind of avoid this recession – is beginning to realize that he can’t escape the lagging economy, no matter where he hides. His 2-year program got canceled, 1 year into it. He signed up for this program with the intention of getting a diploma in a specialized field, and now? That’s just not going to happen. The school has run out of money and cannot fund the program.
When he told me, my first thought was: where’s the accountability? These students were halfway done their program, and they were putting their careers on hold, or they moved from other cities to study in this program. And now it’s just disappeared 3 weeks before school is supposed to resume. I can understand canceling the program for students going into their 1st year, but it seems like they could have taken the loss on the program costs in order to see these 2nd year students through to the end of their program. Because now they’ve just wasted a year of their lives, and a year of tuition. And that school was not cheap.
The option they gave him was that he could transfer to 2nd year at a school in Vancouver. But then he’d have to spend the money to move, quit his part-time job (and find a new one), and live in a much more expensive city! All in less than 3 weeks!
I feel so bad for him right now!
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