Putting a brake on fees doesn't help more low-income students get into school and merely starves universities of resources, Sean Junor argues ...Read the full article
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J R from Vancouver, Canada writes: That is true. Driving poor students into deep debt will allow them to attend university in poverty. It will also ensure that they will remain poor long after graduation. The stress of being under such deep debt alone will probably be enough to ensure that they will not get very far in their studies anyway. Anyone who is disturbed by social mobility should be happy with this policy of the last 15 years.
- Posted 17/10/07 at 7:33 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Linda Lalonde from Ottawa, Canada writes: It makes no sense to use scarce resources to subsidize the tuition of every student with no regard to income. All students should be charged the full cost of their education with grants and loans made available to needy students to reduce their tuition to a manageable level.
I was glad to see the reference to first-generation Canadians. Many families have not been in Canada long enough to be established and abl;e to put money aside for their children's education, particularly those who came as refugees with only what they could carry. Higher education may also not have been part of the parents' life experience in their home country.
It is particularly difficult for these students to integrate in our society and also be preparing to go to college or university. Many of them give up because they learn quickly that few supports are in place to help them. They don't realize this is partly because we choose to subsidize education for the children of Rosedale and Westmount from public funds.
This is not a victimless decision and it will inevitably come back to haunt us.- Posted 22/10/07 at 1:44 AM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Vickky Angstrom from Canada writes: If you want affordable education (which provides such a powerful economic platform for Canada) you'd have to vote for a government that would fund it properly -- and that ain't the right wing. Conservatives and so-called Liberals have been hacking away at universal education for 20 years now -- and we wonder why we have a skilled labour shortage.
- Posted 22/10/07 at 4:03 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Jake S. from Toronto, Canada writes: The cost of tuition in Canada is very low compared to the value of a post-secondary degree. 90% of students will not "remain poor long after graduation" because they have to pay 20 grand for school. For that 20 grand, they get a much better job than they would otherwise have. Unless you spent your time in university partying and doing little else, and consequently have low marks, I can't see how you could be at a loss when you graduate. Students, low-income or high-income, are not doing anyone a favour by attending school - they are primarily working to make themselves better off, economically and intellectually.
- Posted 25/10/07 at 11:43 AM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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