Abolish Post-Seconday Tuition Fees

Abolish Post-Secondary Tuition Fees

Thesis:
Tuition fees at the post-secondary level should be eliminated to lighten the load of university and college students and promote a more competitive and advanced society.

Kaio Kathriner
March. 3, 2010
315033
English 12
Mr. Coolbaugh

Works Cited

“Buy Now Pay Later: Canadians in Debt.” cbc.ca/news. 14 March 2010.
      http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/personalfinance/debt.html

“Canada’s Climbing Tuition Fees.” cbc.ca. 4 March 2010.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/map-tuition-fees/

“Free Education.” absoluteastronomy.com. 15 March 2010.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Free_education

“Provincial Gap in Tuition is Growing.” theglobeandmail.com. 15 March 2010.
      http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/provincial-gap-in-tuition-fees-is-growing-statscan-finds/article1331621/

“Student Debt in Canada.” cfs-fcee.ca. 25 March 2010
      http://www.cfs-fcee.ca/studentdebt/index.html

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      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_Canada

“University Tuition Fees.” statcan.gc.ca. 25 March 2010.
      http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/071018/dq071018b-eng.htm

      In BC, tuition fees have risen by 174 percent, going from $1808 from 1990-91 to $4960 in 2006-07 (CBC.ca). The post-secondary tuition fees have increased drastically all over Canada in these few years. These tuition increases have prohibited potential students to take part in their program of choice, which allows wealthy, unworthy students to replace them. It also tends to dig graduates deep in debt from student loans. In other education systems, a government-funded post-secondary system has allowed for free and equal education on a more competitive scale, due to higher tax rates. Tuition fees at the post-secondary level should be eliminated to lighten the load of university and college students and promote a more competitive and advanced...