Not everyone gets rich in a gold rush….

Our universities’ and governments’ capacity for critical self-examination, never too well-developed at the best of times, appear to have been completely overwhelmed by the gold rush to attract foreign students and the cash they represent. At least that’s the case I make in my latest column in the Globe’s ROB…standards are being endangered in the mad rush to pump up the foreign student numbers, and the cost will be borne chiefly by Canadian students and taxpayers.