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Accessible Education
CJE is committed to fully accessible education, without any barriers. To this end, one of the first steps we are calling for is the elimination of all fees. Fees prevent full and equal participation in postsecondary education by impeding entrance, constricting choices and one’s ability to study, and saddling graduates with tremendous debt loads.
- Fees and factors affecting access
What kinds of factors impede people’s accessing university? Does the cost of education and fear of debt have anything to do with it?
- Fees, part-time work and dropping out
Do people leave university because of inability to pay? Does having to work part-time affect a student’s ability to study effectively?
- Student debt
The average student debt upon graduation in Canada is $28,000. How does this impact upon the lives of graduates?
- Costs of living: another form of fees?
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- What would it take to eliminate fees in Canada?
Is the elimination of fees feasible? Find out how many countries around the world charge no fees for education, and find out steps that can be taken to eliminate fees in Canada.
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Democratizing the University
CJE calls for parity between students, faculty members and university workers on all decision-making bodies at the university, right up to Governing Council. Rather than a small group of administrators, government appointees and token representatives, we believe decisions about the university’s direction should fundamentally be made by those who constitute its population.
- Decision-making at the University of Toronto
Learn about how the current decision-making processes at UofT came to be, and the struggles that students led to try and obtain greater representation for students on decision-making bodies.
- Who’s who on the Governing Council
Find out more about the people who make decisions at UofT, and their connections and links to corporations and politicians.
- Toward a democratic university
What would a more democratized university look like?
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