Submitted by Douglas
Saw this important news item on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) – channel 703 MCTV – today, and I immediately went on the internet and found more.
Persons, especially that small group of intellectually bankrupt lecturers at Cave Hill (including some Barbadians) who use their privileged position (at the tax payers expense) to daily bad-mouth the government under the guise of erudite instruction, and the “strangers within our gates” at that place, as well as the clearly adversarial columnists with their jaundiced views, the pseudo social commentators and the tabloid lead writers who feed their listeners/readers a constant diet of pessimism and doom and gloom, should see this.
Of course, Barbados is one of the very few countries in the whole world that offered free education at the nursery, primary, secondary and tertiary levels; and, it’s not the first to ask university students to make a contribution towards their education. Canada, a prosperous developed country has been doing this for years, and has continuously increased fees.
Have a read below.
Ontario Students to pay Highest Tuition Fees for four more years, report says
TORONTO, Sept. 10, 2014 /CNW/
Data released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives predicts Ontario tuition fees will increase to $9,483 by 2017. According to the report, Ontario students will also continue to pay the highest tuition fees in Canada for the next four years.
“This data makes it crystal clear that the Liberal government completely lacks leadership and direction when it comes to post-secondary education,” said Alastair Woods, Chairperson for the Canadian Federation Students-Ontario. “The government has continued to divest from higher education, as fees rise, class sizes swell and student debt levels balloon.”
The provincial government has justified tuition fee increases by offering an array of financial assistance programs that range from loans to grants to post-graduation repayment assistance. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ data shows that even with these programs, Ontario is still one of the least affordable provinces for students from low- and middle-income families.
“Ontario has an affordability crisis that is barring qualified students from pursuing college or university education and saddling thousands more with record levels of student debt,” said Woods. “The province must end its piecemeal approach to higher education and fund our institutions properly so that we can reduce tuition fees and ensure high quality teaching and learning at public colleges and universities.”
The Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario is the largest and oldest student organization in Ontario, representing more than 350,000 college and university students in all regions of the province.
Adjusted for inflation, average college fees across Canada, which were $2,243 in 1990-91, are predicted to rise to $7,437 and even higher by 2016-17, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
SOURCE Canadian Federation of Students – Ontario
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