UBC’S OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 | VOLUME XCIV| ISSUE VII
HAVING A DOOZY SINCE 1918
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FARM FRESH
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THE UBYSSEY
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HOW DID YOU DO IN
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POST-SECONDARY >>
Tuition dependency for B.C. post-secondary on the rise Report: Tuition dollars fund 40.3% of university operations Micki Cowan CUP B.C. Bureau Chief
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Vancouver (CUP) — When it comes to depending on tuition to fund post-secondary education, B.C. is now the third most tuition-reliant province in the country following Ontario and Nova Scotia. A new Statistics Canada report shows that in the past decade, tuition has come to account for 40.3 per cent
of funding for university operations, up from just over 25 per cent in 1999, according to the 2012-2013 Almanac of Post-Secondary Education. This marks the largest increase in tuition dependency of any province in Canada during that timespan. While B.C. is still the province with the fourth lowest tuition in Canada, responsibility is increasingly being put on the student to fund post-secondary,
rather than the government. Minister of Advanced Education John Yap said for the province of B.C., the funding to reduce tuition dependency is not there yet. “In an ideal world, we’d find ways to increase affordability,” said Yap. “Maybe the timing is not right in terms of the funding available.”
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