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Majority of tuition hike proposals rejected

Advanced Education Minister Diane McGifford has rejected 10 of 12 requests from the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg for tuition cap exemptions.

McGifford has accepted only two of a dozen requests for huge increases in tuition, from U of M's business MBA program and the faculty of dentistry.

Dentistry tuition goes up by 20 per cent in each of the next two years, the amount the faculty had requested.

The I.H. Asper School of Business gets an additional 25 per cent for its MBA program in each of the next two years, for future students only — well short of the 88 per cent increase requested over three years that would have included current students.

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