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A Moment of Clarity in Quebec

Recently, I heard something from Quebec students which I think was a bit of a breakthrough. Outside Quebec, the discourse of student tuition protests tends to be of the “gimme, gimme, gimme” variety: students should pay less, and government (or “the rich,” or “corporations,” or whatever) should pay more. They’re arguing for a straight resource transfer, regardless of how regressive it is. But last week in Quebec, students started singing a slightly different tune. Pointing to expensive new capital investments

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April 2, 2012 1 Comment

Tuition Fees Worldwide

Today, HESA released the annual global year in review of tuition fees and student aid for 2011, which you can read here. Put together by HESA’s network of over thirty associates around the world, myself and (mainly) Pamela Marcucci, it’s the first really global analysis of how cost-sharing is evolving around the world. We looked at what we call the “G-40”; that is, the 40 countries which collectively comprise 90% of the world’s students and 90% of the world’s scientific

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March 22, 2012 1 Comment

On Sticker Price, Net Price and Red Squares

This afternoon, Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand will present his budget, which will likely reiterate the province’s plan to increase tuition by $325 annually for five years, starting this fall. The tuition debate has occupied much provincial politics this early spring. Striking students are taking to the streets on a daily basis. In one indefensible incident, a CEGEP student may have lost an eye after police tossed a “stun grenade” in his direction. The anti-striketuition symbol, the carré rouge, abounds,

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March 20, 2012 8 Comments

A Back-to-Basics Tuition Policy

Whenever I hear people whine about some allegedly soul-destroying atrocity in the academy and wondering what happened to the “heart” of the university and its ancient ideals, I always smile. I for one would totally be up for a return to the 18th-century university. Starting with pricing policies. Back in the day, the administrative purpose of universities as corporate entities was mainly one of certification: masters would sit together and decide which students were worthy of degrees. The bureaucratization of

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March 9, 2012 No Comments

Fibs, Nose-stretchers and Trolls

Can someone please make the Glen Murray v. CFS bunfight stop? It’s making me want to poke my eyes out with knitting needles. To recap, the Ontario Liberals made a stupid election promise about tuition rebates which they first communicated badly and then partially reneged on while pretending they hadn’t. Still, they did something for students, and would like some credit for it. But they are being rebuffed by the Canadian Federation of Students. The Federation is incandescent that the Liberals

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February 6, 2012 2 Comments

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