Tagged With: tuition
Students, workers must stand together
Letter to the Editor of the Marlet (Victoria), 7 January 2004 Since 2001, tuition fees at UVic have been artificially inflated to serve the BC Liberal agenda of privatizing the costs of post-secondary education. How else do we explain an $18-million budget surplus? A government-funded model, accessible to low-income students, is being replaced with a … Continue reading
Reduce tuition fees
Opinion-editorial article published in The Brunswickan (Fredericton), 7 November 2003 Several years ago, I worked on a campaign that resulted in a five per cent reduction in tuition barriers to education at the University of Victoria. This was achieved through an increase in the annual grant from the government of British Columbia to the university. There … Continue reading
Got tuition?
Letter to the Editor published in The Brunswickan (Fredericton), 18 September 2003 I couldn’t help but notice the ‘Got Tuition’ posters all over our campus. I applaud the student union for raising the profile of tuition barriers to education. But I’m not sure a 50-50 raffle is the solution. If we’re going to discuss a … Continue reading
We’ll have our cake and eat it too: A call for tuition-free, corporate-free post-secondary education
Published in the Martlet (Victoria), 3 November 2000 An opinion piece appeared in last week’s paper supporting corporate involvement at UVic and suggesting free education is a pipe dream. “We pay about 20 per cent of our tuition costs,” the writer asserted. “Why is that not enough for some people?” I’ve got an answer, but … Continue reading
