Affordable Tuition

 

Affordable and Accessible College and University Education

publicpower means every qualified student in Ontario should have access to job training or post-secondary education, regardless of income.

The NDP would immediately reduce tuition fees by 10 per cent and ensure a place for every qualified student.

Only the NDP will bring Ontario's post-secondary education funding back up to the national average.

Conservatives: Conservative post-secondary education policies and funding cuts have created numerous problems in Ontario's colleges and universities.

The classrooms are too small, there aren't enough spaces to accommodate the students applying, there are too few faculty members to teach the courses, the double cohort disaster looms large.

Conservatives increased tuition fees by 150 per cent in undergraduate programs, a barrier to admission for many hard-working and qualified students. Others graduate with a staggering debt load.

The Conservatives are privatizing education bit by bit, as seen by their push for American style, for-profit, private McUniversities.

Liberals: The Liberals flip flopped on their 1999 promise to reduce tuition fees by ten per cent.

The Liberals will freeze tuition fees at their current expensive rates for up to two years and won't re-regulate them.

NDP: Right now, almost 80 per cent of all students never attend college or university and most who do, leave shouldering enormous debt.

Deregulated tuition fees for professional (including law and medicine) and graduate-programs, which increased by 800 per cent since 1995, would be re-regulated.

The NDP will re-regulate tuition fees so that every student has the option of attending public colleges and universities and parents don't have to worry about their children being shut out.

Howard Hampton and the NDP will introduce their School2Work program of apprenticeships, training and having work count for post-secondary credits as an aid for the 8 in 10 students who leave secondary school for the world of work.

The NDP government consistently funded public colleges and universities.

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