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Originally posted by EddyBeers@Aug 31 2004, 02:18 AM
To me this is a non starter, people who want to go to school in this province will go to school, I haven't run into one person who hasen't been able to apply for a student loand to go to college. the day and age of universal free education is over, its just not affordable.
I bet you could find someone who could not afford law school, U of C is 10, 252 dollars in 2004 and going up and the maximum amount that you can receive through a student loan is 11, 600, leaving 1300 hundred dollars to live off of for 8 months, barring employment. This is also assuming that one does not buy law book or pay mandaroty student fees. With the cost of books and fees, you are looking at over 11, 600 dollars, more than the maximum loan. You would have to have a part time job making at least 1200 dollars a month to just live in the city of Calgary. Good luck studying while working 25 hours a week.
And why do they have to pay the "differential tuition fee", because they are supposedly going to make more money. Only in Alberta would someone assume that just because you are a lawyer or a doctor you will choose a career path where you make x amount of dollars. So much for legal work in the fields of human rights, civil liberties, crown prosecution and onward corporate law and oil and gas interests. What a joke.
My apologies as I digressed to all who want to talk military.
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So what do you feel is a solution that will work?
Throw open the doors to all programs and let the government foot the bill?
Free education for all?
Where's the money going to come from?
There has to be some sacrifice for education, we can agree on that, but if you want the government to cover 74% or 80% of education then the qualities of schools are going to drop due to a lack of funding.
Its become clear that the day and age of free health care and education is going to end, the economics of that don't work
I decided to go to an american school and I had to work my way through it, but it was my decision to to do this, and I didn't starve, I wasn't rich, and I sacrificed a lot.