Post-secondary education in Quebec should be free – Study

Researchers from a Quebec institute are proposing that the provincial government take advantage of its rising revenues to introduce free post-secondary education, reports The Canadian Press.

In its study published on Wednesday 24 August, the Institut de recherche et d'informations socioéconomiques (IRIS) claims that tuition fees no longer have a place as a method of financing universities. The study’s authors calculate that free tuition in Quebec would cost CA$1.2 billion (US$921 million), representing less than 0.009% of total spending in the provincial budget.

Samuel Élie-Lesage, a research associate at IRIS and co-author of the study, says that not only is free education financially viable, but high fees and the prospect of going into debt discourage students from pursuing education, especially the less affluent.
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