Tuition for Post Secondary Education

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Post-secondary education has became the necessary gateway for young adults to gain access to skilled white collar careers, with even some unskilled labour now requiring at minimum a two year college diploma, the need to have access to post-secondary increases annually. However, access to education has become a gateway to sometimes crushing student debt following graduation that can take a lifetime to repay; even stunting the ability to achieve things such as home ownership, ability to access credit to start a small business, or in extreme cases, afford to move out of the parental home. Governments have made strides in improving the amount of funding available for students to go to college or university; they have also cut the amount of funding given directly to the institutions to offset operating costs, which in turn has lead to annual increases in tuition costs. This dichotomy in reasoning has lead to increasing tensions between students and the administrations of post-secondary schools across Canada. Most recently in Quebec, large student walk-outs and protests were held to...

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