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Quebec Students Gearing Up for Tuition Fight « Student Activism

Quebec Students Gearing Up for Tuition Fight « Student Activism

Quebec Students Gearing Up for Tuition Fight

Between 1994 and 2007, the Canadian Province of Quebec kept tuition at its public universities stable, access robust, and educational quality high.

In 2007 that tuition freeze was lifted, and a plan to hike tuition $50 a semester, every semester, for five years was implemented. That five-year period expires in 2012, and students are now bracing to oppose a dramatically more punitive tuition scheme. Union university workers, understanding that tuition increases typically