Tuition cuts won't increase university access
Stephen Gordon, Globe and Mail, February 2, 2012.

Following widespread tutition-rate protests in Canada yesterday the Globe and Mail is trotting out the well-worn counterargument: tuition cuts won't increase university access. It's disingenuous. The author, if he chose to be accurate, would write "tuition cuts by themselves won't increase university access." They are a necessary but not sufficient condition. We need to address other costs as well (such as, say, books) and we need to acddress social equity in society in general. But that said, ti should be clear, that tuition hikes decrease access. They make a hard problem even harder to solve. And it is for that reason the students are right and the purveyors of tired old canards are wrong. (Hits Today: 3 Total: 603) [Direct Link] [Tags: Canada, Tuition and Student Fees]

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Re: Tuition cuts won't increase university access

karynromeis, February 3, 2012

Interestingly enough, we're seeing the flip-side of this reasoning in the UK. This September, new students will pay up to 200% more than the 2011 intake, as fees rise from around £3Kpa in some instances to £9Kpa. And how much of an impact has this had on the number of applications to university? According to one report on the news last week (sadly I missed the name of the source), very little. Just a few percent. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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