Tagged With: post-secondary
Vote ‘Yes’ for CFS
Letter to the Editor published in The Brunswickan (Fredericton), 30 January 2006 Later this month, grad students will have the opportunity to join the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). I firmly believe it is in their best interests to vote a resounding ‘Yes.’ The CFS represents students at universities and colleges across Canada, both graduate and … Continue reading
Students, workers must stand together
Letter to the Editor of the Marlet (Victoria), 7 January 2004 Since 2001, tuition fees at UVic have been artificially inflated to serve the BC Liberal agenda of privatizing the costs of post-secondary education. How else do we explain an $18-million budget surplus? A government-funded model, accessible to low-income students, is being replaced with a … Continue reading
Reduce tuition fees
Opinion-editorial article published in The Brunswickan (Fredericton), 7 November 2003 Several years ago, I worked on a campaign that resulted in a five per cent reduction in tuition barriers to education at the University of Victoria. This was achieved through an increase in the annual grant from the government of British Columbia to the university. There … Continue reading
Sodexho makes me want to barf
Letter to the Editor published in The Brunswickan (Fredericton), 1 October 2003 As someone who is new to UNB, I find it strange that students and staff have little choice when it comes to healthy, affordable food. Why has this university handed over such an essential service to the private sector? It may be common to … Continue reading
Take sides
Opinion-editorial published in the Martlet (Victoria), 15 March 2003 It is comfortable to pretend we are a big, happy family. Father knows best… Current circumstances make such a stance impossible. Our country is sending battleships and troops to escalate the war against Iraq. The BC Liberals are levelling our social infrastructure to nineteenth-century conditions, pushing … Continue reading
High fees a step in the wrong direction
Editorial published in Martlet (Victoria), 25 January 2001 Deregulation of tuition fees used to be a distant issue, a phenomenon safely restricted to the other side of the Rockies. More than a few UVic students are here because they couldn’t afford to go to school back home. In Ontario, deep government cuts forced universities to … Continue reading
We’ll have our cake and eat it too: A call for tuition-free, corporate-free post-secondary education
Published in the Martlet (Victoria), 3 November 2000 An opinion piece appeared in last week’s paper supporting corporate involvement at UVic and suggesting free education is a pipe dream. “We pay about 20 per cent of our tuition costs,” the writer asserted. “Why is that not enough for some people?” I’ve got an answer, but … Continue reading
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Got tuition?
Letter to the Editor published in The Brunswickan (Fredericton), 18 September 2003 I couldn’t help but notice the ‘Got Tuition’ posters all over our campus. I applaud the student union for raising the profile of tuition barriers to education. But I’m not sure a 50-50 raffle is the solution. If we’re going to discuss a … Continue reading »