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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim
Completely agree. These protests are bull. I'd wager that most of these kids partaking either DON'T actually go to school, or are taking part-time course loads, or most likely, have gotten caught up in the hype of UQAM's favorite sport.
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LOL at the UQAM reference. It seems every other day there is some kind of protest going on over there.
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Originally Posted by Vaillant
Quebec is not Canada, you have to understand that we want everyones to be able to go to university, it's a right to get an education so yes I believe university should be for everyones not only the rich, so that is why we are against this 75% higher tuition and we would like to see a system like most countries in Europe to be as low as 500$ to 0$ It work there why he wouldn't work in Canada/Québec?
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Everyone should have an equal
opportunity to attend university, but not everyone should attend university.
Sure education is a right: you have the right to attend elementary school and high school. Those are the basics that everyone is entitled to. However, a university education is not a
right, but a
privilege. If it was a "right", then universities would be forced let in everyone who applied whether they merit being there or not (from a grades perspective).
The government is really trying their best to ease students into the increase by doing it over 5 years in addition to increasing funding for bursaries (which is free money). In fact 35% of the increase in tuition fees will go to provide low income students with bursaries and loans, which I think is a worthy cause. (p. 39
http://www.budget.finances.gouv.qc.c...ducationen.pdf)
I don't see how accessibility is severely reduced under this plan. Modest increases and enrollment don't even seem to be that closely related. (Source:
http://www.iedm.org/files/juin2010_en_0.pdf)
In order for the government to be able to afford providing free tuition, they would need to decide where the money would come from. What would you suggest they do? Remove it from another government program (which one)? Increase taxes? Borrow the money indefinitely?