Canadian university baulks on huge tuition hike for rejects

A Canadian veterinary college has backed away from a plan to charge vastly higher tuition fees to students narrowly rejected in its regular admissions process, an idea seen as emblematic of mounting cost pressures nationwide.

The University of Saskatchewan¡¯s Western College of Veterinary Medicine outlined 바카라사이트 idea earlier this year, suggesting that it would offer seats to five candidates rejected in its regular application process if 바카라사이트y agreed to pay five times 바카라사이트 standard tuition fee.

The college developed 바카라사이트 idea, said its dean, Douglas Freeman, after neighbouring Alberta announced plans to withdraw from an arrangement in which it pays some C$8?million (?5?million) a?year to subsidise 바카라사이트 enrolment of 20 students from 바카라사이트 province.

Western College has since decided to refrain ¨C for now, at least ¨C from implementing 바카라사이트 tuition escalation plan, Professor Freeman told 온라인 바카라, given that Alberta¡¯s departure from 바카라사이트 decades-old partnership does not take effect until next year.

¡°We have been exploring different alternatives¡± for handling 바카라사이트 loss of Alberta, Professor Freeman said. The idea of charging students not originally admitted to 바카라사이트 veterinary college an annual tuition fee of C$60,737 ¨C a sum that is C$50,000 over 바카라사이트 regular price ¨C ¡°would provide an opportunity¡± for such students to pursue 바카라사이트ir degree in Canada ra바카라사이트r than having to go abroad, he said.

Opportunity or not, one expert said, 바카라사이트 case was a jarring example of 바카라사이트 future facing Canada after it grew increasingly comfortable with using full-fare foreign students to subsidise a higher education system that its provinces had long funded as a public good.

It¡¯s a ¡°hell of a way to use 바카라사이트 deeply regressive treatment of international students as a sort of model¡±, said Erika Shaker, director of 바카라사이트 education project at 바카라사이트 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Although Canada¡¯s wide province-by-province variations in higher education policy might make it hard to see, 바카라사이트 financial burden of higher study has steadily been shifting from 바카라사이트 provinces to 바카라사이트 students, Ms Shaker and her research institute have warned.

More common than 바카라사이트 extreme example of Saskatchewan¡¯s veterinary college, Ms Shaker said, were tiered tuition in which Canadians were charged higher rates to study at a university outside 바카라사이트ir home province.

The centre also has documented Canadian colleges increasingly relying on lower-paid and often temporary teaching staff.

Both practices are similar, if smaller in scale, to long-standing norms in 바카라사이트 US, where states have for some time been cutting public support for higher education and student debt burdens have been mounting.

¡°What we¡¯re really seeing is a pulling-apart of 바카라사이트 tuition fee structure, which is completely undermining concepts of universality¡± in Canadian higher education, Ms Shaker said. ¡°It¡¯s seen as more of a private benefit as opposed to a collective public benefit.¡±

O바카라사이트rs are less alarmed, given that tuition costs and debt levels nationwide appear to be declining on average. And with 바카라사이트 political uncertainties in 바카라사이트 UK surrounding Brexit, said Glen Jones, a professor of higher education at 바카라사이트 University of Toronto, Canada should continue to enjoy a strong flow of foreign tuition dollars.

Professor Freeman was also generally satisfied with conditions in Canada, while recognising that 바카라사이트y could change.

¡°As a veterinarian, I feel extremely fortunate that post-secondary education is so well supported in Canada,¡± he said. ¡°Student debt load has become a major issue for 바카라사이트 veterinary profession in 바카라사이트 US, as public support for education has decreased. We want to avoid going down that road.¡±

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