Cut Education Transfers; Raise Tuition .Loubling of Luilion by 1997
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OCTOBER 12, 1994 INSIDE... New Student Executives elected page 3 Student Assocdtion Budget page 5 Entertainment pages 6 & 8 Link enteitainment iiatic party it up at Nine Inch Nails. Tea Paity, Audioiotica Meclianistic and the Vancouver Film Festival amongst other events. In debt-servitude since 1965 Fed's social ipolicy proposals: cut education transfers; raise tuition .loubling of luilion by 1997. The Star would pul upward pressure on tuition would have lo pay a higher proportion of by Derek DeCloet reported thai its iiifoiniation coines from ;i fees," since universities would have lo universily costs lhan almost an> where OTTAWA (CUP) — Lloyd Axworlliy leaked cabinet document. make up lhal $2.6 bilUon from elsewhere. else in the world." confirmed Oct. 5 what many had been "Sometimes figures like that are used But Axworthy insisted a new loan sys• When it was suggeslcd sludeni debts expecting: llie federal governmeni may to scare people. Using speculative docu• lem would help make up for those nsing might increase lo an average of $50,000 slop giving cash to ihc provinces fnr jiosl- ments or stories doesn't help." he said. costs. or higher for an undergraduate degree, .secondary education. Franciiie Lalonde. human resources 'The key issue today is accessibihly — Axwordiy said, "I (lon't think that's a fig• The rosull for university and college critic for the opposition Bloc Quebecois, 10 make sure they [sludenls] have the ure that would be appropriate." students could be higher luilion :in(l larger said the proposals were "destabilizing for proper means lo finance lhal [rising Richard Stiimon. president of Culeton studeni debts alter graduation. universities" in Quebec and the rest of luilion fees]," he said. "Under ihc present Universily Students' Associalion, said die Axworlliy, the federal minister of Canada. system ... the lacl of the matter is tuition income-contingent repayment proposal human resources developmeni, unveiled In response to Ihe possible cuts to edu• fees have doubled." makes it "easier lo say, 'Let's load up the Liberal government's "discussion cation, the Canadian Federation of To pay back die hefty loans that would (debt) on students.' That's really what paper" on social policy refomi at a press worries us." Studenls (CFS), a national sludent lobby conference on Parliamenl Hill. Il's ihe be needed for higher luifion fees, the dis• Axworthy pointed oui lhat university group, is the federal govenimont's social lirel slep ill a process that wdl change the cussion paper favours a system of and college graduates h.we much belter policy review. As an alternative lo face of unemploymenl insurance, welfare income-contingent loan lepaymenl. chances in the job market and usually income-contingent loans, the CFS sup• and higher education in Canada. In other words, the more you make at have higher incomes dian people widiout ports an education lax for corporations lo This year, Ottawa will iransfer $2.6 your job after graduation, the larger your post-secondary degrees. pay for education. billion to the provinces lo spend on uni• loan payments would be. It suggests pay• "There's a direci lirdc between educa• The progressive tax system will force versity and colleges. Axworthy proposes ment could be taken directly out of a tion and income, and people have lo take those who make more than others after instead lo start giving money directly to graduate's paycheque. an investment in themselves of their own graduadon to pay more money into the tax students, mostly in die fonn of sludent Sludent groups were quick to denounce time and effort." system for education spending. loans. die entire scheme. Axworthy spent much of the press con• The CFS believes that "by spreading The discussion paper was released as "The federal govemment is abandon• ference denying a Toronto Star report diat the cost of post-secondary education part of a policy-making process which ing its responsibility to higher education," the govemment had already made a deci• among all Canadians, the societal benefits V now moves to public consultaQons to be said Keith McArthur, the academic affairs sion to cul $7 billion from social pro• of an educated populace are affirmed." earned on into early 199.5. commissioner for Queen's University's grams — including a complete pha.se-out - with files from Brent Dowdall and Axworthy's discussion paper admits student council, in an Oct. 5 press release. of education transfers and an expected Miriam Vale that "replacing federal cash transfers 'This would mean that students in Canada THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY UNK CLASSIFKDS UNK CLASSIFIEDS... are $5 for a 3 line od and $1 for each line after—except employment listings for \^ (,(1, f)ct<)l)or I2tli \\ci[. 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