<p>For many post-secondary students, the rising cost of tuition tops their list of grievances. And it’s not hard to see why. In the early 1990s, average tuition fees were rising by more than 15 per cent a year at Canada’s universities. While the rate of fee hikes slowed later in the decade and into the new millennium, the increases still tended to far outstrip the rate of inflation. Broadly speaking, tuition fees have tripled since 1990-91.</p>
<p>So where does that leave the country’s post-secondary students? Statistics Canada tells us the average annual tuition for a university undergrad was $4,214 in 2005-06. But the average hides a range of fees that depend on everything from the institution involved, to the province it’s in, the particular program of studies, and where the student hails from. Foreign undergrad students, for instance, always pay much more than Canadian students… </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/education/tuition.html[/url]”>http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/education/tuition.html</a></p>
(And of course we will ask, “what are they complaining about???”)</p>