The decision to increase, index or cancel fees, must be based on facts and not on a priori.
I was personally skeptical of proponents of free education, or freeze tuition, until I studied statistics on the issue and I realized that the results of the last increase tuition (1990-1995) lose, aujourd’hui, about two billion of revenue to provincial governments and perhaps as federal and municipal levels.(1)
You can find details and references on the annual loss of revenue estimated at about two billion $ provincial government here : http://yvesmarineau.com/blog/?p=340
It is wrong to say that the rise or indexing has no effect on enrollment and graduation especially so, of government revenues.
See here the "ADVERSE EFFECTS OF AN INCREASE OF TUITION. » : http://yvesmarineau.com/blog/?p=232
Since aid measures (ready, grants and tax deductions) are of no help for part-time students it is imperative to make an interdepartmental study to calculate that tax revenues, costs and expenses incurred related to the effect of an increase, a gel or indexing, short, medium and long term for the Ministries of Education (and universities), income and health.
In 1990 50 % university students studying part-time and they are the ones that have been most affected by the increase 1990-95, with an enrollment decline 20 %. Since no aid measure exists for part-time students with low incomes.
We must therefore ask whether it is decent or indecent to ask to pay more to people who often work at minimum wage and / or part-time ?
Is that the university should not be free, au minimum, for part-time students who have low incomes ?
Since they have no right or loans, or scholarships and even less tax deductions are given their low incomes.
Which causes losses in taxes from all levels of government, medium and long term, simply because of the scale as a significant part of the population.
It is therefore urgent that tax and accounting inter calculate costs and real income losses related to changes in university tuition fees.
If confirmed by the data collected tax, on the links above, Governments should design, an additional contribution to universities, is not an expense, but as an investment with a significant return on investment, financial … and social.
Cordially
Yves Marineau
Sociologist
(1) The various ministries have never sent me the requested documents, demonstrating real economy for the government, I came to the conclusion that they can not even exist such documents.
If they exist I would like to receive a copy for review. If these documents do not actually exist I would like to know what the supporters of increasing or indexing rely to consider more economical for the government these options .
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