Paid in full: who pays for university education in BC?
This paper analyzes the widely held view that university students are heavily subsidized because tuition amounts to one third of the cost of their educations. I argue that students, in fact, pay the full costs of their education. They pay in two ways—with tuition fees while they are students and thr...
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
1998
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| description | This paper analyzes the widely held view that university students are heavily subsidized because tuition amounts to one third of the cost of their educations. I argue that students, in fact, pay the full costs of their education. They pay in two ways—with tuition fees while they are students and through higher taxes after they graduate. The latter payments are ignored in conventional thinking. They are important and mean that Canada already has a contingent payment system for financing its universities |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:726a2af0-0b1b-4690-9152-ab08d0dac8882022-03-26T19:49:54ZPaid in full: who pays for university education in BC?Reporthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_93fcuuid:726a2af0-0b1b-4690-9152-ab08d0dac888Economics and educationEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives1998Allen, RThis paper analyzes the widely held view that university students are heavily subsidized because tuition amounts to one third of the cost of their educations. I argue that students, in fact, pay the full costs of their education. They pay in two ways—with tuition fees while they are students and through higher taxes after they graduate. The latter payments are ignored in conventional thinking. They are important and mean that Canada already has a contingent payment system for financing its universities |
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| topic | Economics and education |
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