St. Lawrence Faculty in Kingston in the summertime of 2021. The school has introduced it is chopping 55 applications, or about 40 per cent of its choices, beginning with new college students this coming semester. (John Final/CBC)
St. Lawrence Faculty says it is chopping 55 applications, or about 40 per cent of its choices, at its Brockville, Cornwall and Kingston campuses beginning subsequent semester.
The cuts contain “program intakes,” or new college students, in keeping with a information launch issued Tuesday. Present college students “can proceed their research as initially deliberate,” it mentioned.
The handfuls of discontinued applications for the spring semester vary from numerous enterprise programs, police foundations and tourism to hairstyling and musical theatre.
Automotive, cook dinner, machinist and masonry apprenticeships are additionally being reduce.
President and CEO Glenn Vollebregt mentioned within the launch the cuts are due to an unspecified “sequence of federal authorities coverage choices” over the past yr or in order that have led to “a protracted record of restrictions and cutbacks.”
Ontario schools have mentioned the federal authorities’s cap on worldwide college students is taking a critical toll. Vollebregt advised The Canadian Press in November its overseas pupil enrolment had dropped by 50 per cent.
“As a driver of workforce progress and a neighborhood chief, we’re dedicated to sustaining a presence within the communities that we serve,” Vollebregt mentioned.
