Subsidizing tuition is the only way to make it accessible to all
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Publication : The Record- Kitchener, Ont.
Author : Dino Snider
Date : Mar 1, 2000
Abstract (Document Summary)
There are "compelling reasons for taxpayers to have to pay more than they already do," and it is exactly because of the brain drain. If tuition is paid more by the students, they have larger debt loads when they graduate. This a real incentive to move to the U.S. to hide from these large debts, an incentive that is absent when tuitions are kept in line with the ability to repay them.
Students who are in programs that provide little promise of a career or job and "should not have bothered with university in the first place" likely were not aware that their education would leave them unemployable. I find it hard to believe that most ex-students who are now underemployed would have chosen their degrees had they known. Ostracizing students for unexpected shifts in the labour market seems unfair; I know nursing and teaching qualified students who went into their degrees when those skills were in demand, only to find no jobs waiting by the time they graduated...
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D - that was a retort to an earlier mean-spirited article.
I've ALWAYS fought the good fight.
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That's right. The article I was refuting actually argued that students were taking degrees with the expectation that they would never work in a related field. Really. Very mean. You can see that sentiment in what we've done to students over the past 15 years with student loan repayment terms.
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