Time to Think Big

It’s time to defend universal access to public PSE, education justice for all More recently, Quebec students reminded us of this history.2 learners and the value of public education for the public In 2012, they rejected tuition hikes and resisted efforts to good. [...] In the late 1970s, the federal government wage work; the relative absence of serious analysis of race in promoted the notion of differential tuition fees for course offerings, or adequate supports for students engaged international students to increase revenue for colleges and in critical race studies; and repeated instances of racism on universities. [...] In 1965, the Canadian Union of Students (a predecessor to This is the moment when our PSE system (and public the Canadian Federation of Students) called for a National services more generally) changed for the worse. [...] The first is the size of Canada’s public sector, which is the goal of free tuition in 1976, politicians at home have cut close to what it was just after the Second World War (federal funding, diminished standards and allowed for tuition hikes, government spending currently sits at 13 percent of GDP, particularly for international students. [...] In the previous decade, the 3. We need fundamental change government held a fifteen-year tuition fee freeze and added a series of other subsidies for student housing and learning costs.58 While student loans were unfortunately re-introduced We, the students of today, even though we are for 2016, Newfoundland and Labrador maintains the lowest obviously members of that privileged class … tuition fee