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Infographic: An Education in Inflation 2014
The cost of tuition has gone up 197% since 1993, how much has everything else gone up? Share our infographic and find out more in…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2014, Volume 17, Number 3 Download 1.99 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Precarious temp agency work requires public policy attention by Andrew Longhurst Don’t…
Hennessy’s Index: August 2014
Which Costs More: Child Care or University Tuition? Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and…
Navigating Canada’s complex terrain of student financial assistance
OTTAWA—Student aid systems in Canada are intricate, elaborate, and, in many cases, thoroughly unmanageable, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy…
It‘s Complicated
An Interprovincial Comparison of Student Financial Aid Download 2.01 MB50 pages This study compares eligibility for student financial aid by examining the amount of funds…
Why teachers are still striking
Speech to the Langley Teachers Association’s Public Forum on Education Check against delivery. I have a slightly different take because I don’t come from the…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2014
Privatization of Schools: An International View “Math wars”, attacks on teacher unions, old-fashioned commercialism, standardized assessment, and surveillance: debates over education have always been heated.…
Fast Facts: Graduate Studies and Continuing Fees
Graduate enrolment is steadily increasing in Manitoba, with more students electing to pursue post-graduate programs at both the Master’s and PhD levels. The growth in…
When Truthiness Prevails
Entrepreneurial education for kids won’t work Truthiness, a term coined by U.S. pop culture icon Stephen Colbert, refers to a personal opinion or belief that…
Should an Ontario university degree be a debt sentence?
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Tuition Fees in Canada
This interactive tool allows you to compare how much tuition fees have increased by province and by degree since 1975.
Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2014
Standardization Nation: In whose interest? The latest issue of Our Schools/Our Selves Standardization Nation looks at who and what is left out of a narrow,…
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