Help Wanted: Is Education Failing Our Students
Live coverage of CBC Windsor's town hall examining post-secondary education and youth unemployment
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Posted: Mar 20, 2013 1:21 PM ET
Last Updated: Mar 21, 2013 8:50 AM ET
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Beginning at 7 p.m., this is where you can follow live and participate in CBC Windsor's town hall at the University of Windsor's new engineering building.
Help Wanted: Is Education Failing Out Students is a look at post-secondary education and youth unemployment.
You can participate by commenting here or by tweeting us at @CBCWindsor or using the hash tag #wdredu.
Throughout the night, we'll try and pose some of your questions and comments to our panel.
Young people are more educated now than ever before.
According to Statistics Canada, post-secondary enrollment has increased in five of the last six years for which there is data.
Nearly 450,000 people were enrolled in post-secondary school in 2010-2011. More than 250,000 students will graduate this year, alone.
Students at college and university are graduating with an average debt of $27,000.
Yet in January, Canada's youth unemployment rate was at 13.5 per cent, nearly twice the overall national rate.
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