The federal and provincial governments have been underfunding universities for decades. Recently, universities were able to start recruiting foreign students to make up for the shortfall, but it looks like that money tap will be turned down. It doesn't look like there's a plan to make up for it.
At the same time, the feds want to
recruit more than 1,000 top international researchers to Canada, with the budget injecting up to $1.7-billion into a suite of recruitment measures.
That'll be tough if universities see their income crater.
Are we now acting like universities are poor and aren’t gouging the fuck out of everyone?
Right? Its more like correcting an income that was taken advantage of in the first place.
How much do they charge in your province? Tuition is very affordable here in Quebec
Ontario is just over $6K for most programs, $9K for engineering and B.Comm coops.
US, many times that.
The absolute cost of tuition doesn't speak to whether the school is "gouging," which would imply excessive profit-taking with funds moving to private investors -- WHO DON'T EVEN EXIST IN THIS SCENARIO.
No school's tuition covers the actual cost for Canadian citizens. Every tuition is highly subsidized. If anything, we're gouging the schools, because they are not allowed to raise tuitions but their costs are going up while their revenue is dropping.
Unless its more than free that’s not affordable to most
WTF are you even talking about?
Wtf are you talking about. Tuitions have been frozen in Ontario for 8 years. Laurentian went broke.
Unaffordable 8 years ago doesn’t mean it’s affordable now. It’s always been a gouge and continues to be so. Higher education is for the upper middle class and wealthy, they use it to look down on others and maintain the status quo, they don’t want poor people there unless a rich person pays
Honestly, I don't think you even know what the word "gouge" means. HINT: IT DOESN'T MEAN "EXPENSIVE"
They're not, really. Their expenses have gone up to match. The days of just teaching with just blackboards are over.
If all expenses are necessary is another question, though. Someone mentioned administration bloat.