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Tiering up over tuition fees
By
Erika Shaker
| September 21, 2016

This fall, tuition fees in Canada are set to increase by 2.8 per cent to a weighted average of $6,373. That's a smaller increase than in previous years, but (as always) averages can mask some important details: in this case, the plethora of options provinces are pursuing to address the optics of rising tuition fees, and what that looks like on paper (and on balance sheets). (Note that these figures do not include additional compulsory fees which are much more deregulated and can add anywhere from $250 to $1,000 to the total annual cost, depending on the university you attend and the program in which you're enrolled.)

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Ontario's 'benevolence with strings attached' is keeping low-income students out of university
By
Stephanie Langton
| August 4, 2016

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I am being denied access to education.

For the past few weeks, I have been in conversation with the National Student Loan Center, Canada Student Loans Services, my local MP's office, among others to try and get answers. The resistance and lack of answers I've repeatedly encountered has convinced me Ontario's student loan system is restrictive and discriminatory.

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Eliminating tuition and compulsory fees for post-secondary education
February 10, 2016 |
A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) outlines a clear path towards accessible post-secondary education in Canada.
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Corporatization of Canadian universities leaves students and faculty on the brink

Academia Inc.: How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

by Jamie Brownlee
(Fernwood Publishing,
2015;
$23.95)

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Although anyone in close proximity to post-secondary education already knows it in their bones, there has been not nearly enough ink spilled on the ongoing corporatization of the university. Jamie Brownlee offers one of the most complete accounts of that process with Academia, Inc.: How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities.

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Watch: Two generations of students talk about debt, scarcity and the future

British Columbia can invest in post-secondary education -- but won't. Here two generations comes face-to-face with student debt and talk about the future of post-secondary education.

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Cape Breton University launches national campaign to eliminate tuition
By
Garry Leech
| March 10, 2015

On March 5, Cape Breton University president David Wheeler, CBU student union president Brandon Ellis and faculty association president Scott Stewart signed a letter urging the leaders of the major federal political parties to develop a strategy in conjunction with the provinces to eliminate tuition for post-secondary education. The three presidents are also urging their counterparts at universities throughout Canada to sign onto the letter.

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Students demand action on student debt and youth unemployment

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Students are taking to the Hill this week asking politicians to put youth issues in their platforms for the 2015 elections. 

They say that if spent properly, $2.84 billion would solve Canada's post-secondary funding problem.

Forty representatives from the Canadian Students' Federation (CFS) have scheduled meetings with more than 120 MPs and Senators to demand action on student issues including debt levels, funding for post-secondary institutions and youth unemployment. 

The CFS, which represents over 500,000 students at 75 institutions across Canada, has recently launched its federal election campaign, itsnosecret.ca to draw attention to the pressing youth issues in this upcoming election. 

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UBC students are starting a revolution. It's time you learned about it.
By
Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki
| October 29, 2014

There’s a revolution happening at the University of British Columbia this semester. Earlier this month the UBC administration announced a set of proposals to increase tuition on incoming international students by 10 per cent and jack up residence fees on eight-month housing contracts by 20 per cent effective September 2015. The outraged response to this was almost immediate, with students coming together in large numbers to get informed and protest the university's plans.

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Student debt, precarious work and the need for a better future
August 27, 2014 |
The Good Jobs Summit panel this year took on student debt, precarious work and the need for a better future.
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A question of (academic) degrees
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Penney Kome
| June 12, 2014

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Convocation at the University of Alberta was a bittersweet occasion for at least one family. Yielding to parental pressure to attend the graduation ceremony, our graduate irreverently considered adding a bright duct tape debt message to his mortar board: $47K. That’s the accumulated debt from a basic part-time seven-year Bachelor of Arts, not the fees to earn a medical or law degree.

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