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Responding to Nick Falvo on tuition fees

Alex Usher

Recently, on my daily blog, I wrote an analysis (link to: http://higheredstrategy.com/whos-progressive/) of distributional effects of tuition reductions versus those of targeted […]

Public policy, Tuition and student fees

Alex Usher is Wrong on Tuition Fees

Nick Falvo

One of Canada’s best-known post-secondary education pundits, Alex Usher, recently wrote a blog post suggesting that Canada’s status quo system of high […]

Public policy, Tuition and student fees

Do High Tuition Fees Make for Good Public Policy?

Nick Falvo

Yesterday, I gave a presentation to Professor Ted Jackson’s graduate seminar course on higher education, taught in Carleton University’s School of Public […]

Signification du carré vert : Raison pour laquelle de nombreux étudiants sont opposés à la grève

Arielle Grenier

Le 30 mars 2011, le ministre des Finances du Québec, Raymond Bachand, annonçait que les étudiants devraient payer davantage pour leurs études […]

Behind the Green Square: Why Many Students Opposed the Strike

Arielle Grenier

Check out Martin Robert’s support of the student strike. This article has been translated from the original French. Read the French version […]

Equality of Opportunity, Equality of Means: An Argument for Low Tuition and the Student Strike

Daniel Weinstock

Read Jacob T. Levy’s take on this issue here. Political philosophers have taken in recent years to distinguishing between “ideal theory” and […]

The High Cost of Low Tuition in Quebec

Jacob T. Levy

Read Daniel Weinstock’s take on this issue. At this writing, the student unions’ boycott of classes in Quebec has ended in success. […]

“Ensemble, bloquons la hausse”: The Rationale Behind the Slogan

Martin Robert

In the spring of 2012 hundreds of thousands of Quebec students and their allies took to the streets to protest the government’s proposed tuition fee increase. Martin Robert makes the case against the tuition increase and proposes an alternative model in which tuition would be free in Quebec.