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Pressure to graduate and “hit the ground running” is part of why students are involved in circus-like contortion. Lightning rips through the clouds over a circus tent in Glen Allen, Va. in 1999. (AP Photo/ Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)

To survive today’s economy, university students are using circus‑like tactics

Alison Taylor, University of British Columbia

Juggling, sword swallowing, contorting: What I heard in interviews and research with students studying and working to get ahead shaped using circus arts metaphors to understand and analyze their experiences.
A man on a skateboard and a young woman pass large letters spelling out UBC at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., November 2015. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

Drop tuition fees: University students face a precarious future amid COVID‑19

Alison Taylor, University of British Columbia

Canada should invest robustly in students’ post-secondary education. Data about effects of the pandemic and how students balance classes and work show why we urgently need this investment.

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