Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Friday, September 16, 2011

University Tuitions In Canada Rising Way Faster Than Inflation, Statscan Says

OTTAWA - Canadian undergrads are paying way more than the inflation rate in tuition hikes this year.

Statistics Canada reports full-time students paid an average of 4.3 per cent more in tuition this fall than they did last year, when tuitions rose four per cent.

Inflation was 2.7 per cent between July 2010 and July 2011.

StatsCan says undergraduate students are paying an average of $5,366 in tuition fees in 2011-12, up from $5,146 a year ago.

Tuition fees rose in all but one province, Newfoundland and Labrador, where they have been frozen since 2003-04.

Increases ranged from 1.4 per cent in Manitoba to 5.1 in Ontario.

New Brunswick ended three years of frozen tuition fees with a 3.6 per cent increase, while tuitions in Nova Scotia rose 4.3 after three years of declines.

On average, undergraduate students in Ontario paid the highest fees in Canada, at $6,640, followed by students in New Brunswick who paid $5,853.

Undergrads in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador continued to have the lowest average fees, $2,519 and $2,649 respectively.

Graduate students paid an average of $5,599 in tuition fees for the 2011-12 academic year, up 3.7 per cent.

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Source: Huffington 

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