Die Studiengebühren werden voraussichtlich steigen, die OSAP-Zuschüsse werden aufgrund der neuen Änderungen bei der postsekundären Finanzierung in Ontario sinken: Minister
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-college-university-funding-osap-9.7086776
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Sheer economic illiteracy. Burying youth in more debt cuz they want to increase their education and skills is not how you grow your economy, ever. If that was the case American youth would have been very well-off.
Loan repayments are basically a double tax on youth, taxing them out of money that they could be spending as consumers, which would circulate in the economy, i.e., being a net contributor.
Cutting max grants from 85% of total aid to max 25% is nothing more than okaying a race to the bottom where provinces work to defund our education system. No different than some far lefties want about defunding the police, but except, it must be fine if conservatives do it towards our education sector.
Way to go Doug Ford! You care so much about the future workers of this province by increasing their debt when they want go into post secondary and making life more expensive when they are working with a form of an additional tax.
No country, ever, has increased their productivity by adding more paywalls and loan traps into their post secondary. Countries like Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway all have some form free-post secondary, and they are better off as they don’t leave their students in crazy debt. What tories are doing is economically, and fiscally, illiterate, and not evidence-based, it’s policy based evidence making.
The government is basically telling every post secondary student that’s not graduating this year „lol get fucked here’s more debt“. And youth are also partly to blame, for not showing up to vote last year. I got my entire friend group to vote in both elections last year, some being their first time ever voting.
It’s inevitable – Canadian students were being subsidized by international students paying far more for tuition than they did. With international students now being restricted, there is a massive shortfall in university and college funding that means higher tuition fees for Canadians.
They can and should require unis and colleges to try to make up the shortfall as much as possible by cutting the bloat in terms of expensive new halls and facilities, and the bloated class of administrators they seem to have these days.
But there will still be tuition rises because of the collective policy choice we’ve made to essentially prioritize lowering immigration over funding the postsecondary education system. It’s just a fact, no dancing around it.
With International Students being cut, it made no sense to keep the tuition freeze. Post-Secondary schools need funding, especially from a provincial government not interested in funding them.
However, cutting OSAP makes absolutely no sense. Cutting grants and increasing loans does not improve accessibility or affordability. The economy sucks right now, so it’s not like students can just get a part-time job or summer job like in the past. Students are struggling to even secure internships or co-ops. They aren’t even using these savings to fund schools, just their own agenda.
Doug Ford’s government does not care about future generations. This isn’t even a fiscally conservative government, and cuts aren’t even done for efficiencies. Ontario tax payers are not getting more bang for their buck.
I just want to say that the Wynne governments tuition program for low income families is the only reason i had an opportunity to go to college, start a family and buy a house by my early 30s. It was a godsend.