Special report | Privatisation
Mix and match
Both provision and funding of higher education is shifting towards the private sector
THE STUDENT STRIKE in Quebec in 2012 did not just bring down the province’s government; it also revealed deep cultural differences in ideas about university funding. French Canadian students, influenced by European thinking, were outraged that their government had proposed raising tuition fees from C$2,168 ($2,168) a year to C$3,793; the rest of Canada, used—American-style—to much higher fees, was baffled by their fury.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Mix and match”
From the March 28th 2015 edition
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