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Originally Posted by surferguy
Universities should be free. Change my mind
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Nothing is free.......
Anyway, several years ago my wife and I went to an Alumni talk given by the Dean of Students at UAlberta. He spoke of the stress today's students are under and obviously one of those is financial. At the Q&A when he was done he was asked about free tuition like they do in Europe. 'Great idea' he said, 'and who's going to decide which half of students currently in university wont be going anymore'? Point was that free tuition comes with the trade off that way fewer students are admitted into university in Europe. The number is something like 50% or fewer than in Canada.