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There aren’t enough people training to become nurses to meet the rising demands for nurse practitioners and registered nurses. Iconic Prototype/iStock/Getty Images Plus

New federal loan limits will worsen America’s nursing shortage and leave patients waiting longer for care

Kymberlee Montgomery, Drexel University and Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, Duquesne University

The 2025 tax and spending law lowers the federal loan borrowing limits for nursing students, raising the up-front costs of nursing school.
Graduates listen during a convocation ceremony at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, B.C., in May 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Arts graduate education in Canada should be redesigned around students’ and society’s needs

Jonathan Malloy, Carleton University; Lisa Young, University of Calgary, and Loleen Berdahl, University of Saskatchewan

Canada needs the arts, with its insights into human behaviour and thinking, more than ever. But governments and funding agencies should shift funding models for arts graduate education.
Universities face pressure to ensure their graduate programs have a clear return on investment both for students and for taxpayers. Here, the Vancouver skyline behind a Canadian flag in North Vancouver, B.C., March 24, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Coronavirus halted years of research and Canada needs a strategy to fight back

Loleen Berdahl, University of Saskatchewan; Jonathan Malloy, Carleton University, and Lisa Young, University of Calgary

Graduate students are suffering, public investments in research are at risk and we need to face implications of growing reliance on international graduate students when borders are harder to cross.

Related Topics

  1. Arts
  2. COVID-19
  3. Federal student loans
  4. Health care
  5. Health care costs
  6. health care gaps
  7. STEM
  8. tuition fees

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