Students Slam Government on Budget Cuts

One year ago, the BC government received the Campus 2020 Report on BC’s post-secondary education system, recommending major investment in research, and equalization of participation in post-secondary education from Aboriginal students and those from low-income backgrounds. Yet, the government has put it off for a year, and will continue to dawdle until the late fall. Then, just a month before the beginning of the fiscal year, while budgets were being finalized, colleges and universities got a nasty shock with a 2.6% cut to the funding they had been promised a month before in the provincial budget on top of cutbacks to funding new student seats. With economic forecasts worsening, ... more

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Students Lead Demands in Transit Campaign
As a part of the Canadian Federation of Students’ ‘WE RIDE’ campaign, the University of Victoria Students’ Society and Camosun College Students’ Society, in partnership with other local organizations, are campaigning for fast, accessible, and affordable public transit to and from UVic and Camosun – and in the Greater Victoria area as a whole. more...

Student Fees Lawsuit Ruled a Political Matter
Students Say it is Time for the Government to Enforce its Rules

Today, the Honourable Madam Justice Joan L. Lax of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled against consideration of the $200 million class action lawsuit to stop prohibited college ancillary fees. Justice Lax’s ruling found more.

Federal Government Nudged to Right Decision on Student Aid
Vancouver - Students applauded the creation of Canada's first-ever national system of grants, announced in today's Federal Budget, capping several years of lobbying efforts. The grants program is being introduced as the Millennium Scholarship Foundation mandate comes to an end.

"The government has taken a positive step towards ... more