Leadership hopeful Ashton would resurrect tuition freeze
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WINNIPEG – Steve Ashton said today if he’s elected NDP leader he’ll bring back the controversial university and college tuition freeze until 2011.
“When you’re looking at students, there’s not a lot of wealthy students out there,” Ashton said at an event at the University of Manitoba.
“We had one increase this year. We’ll return to that tuition freeze to make sure we have affordability for our students.”
Last April the Doer government ended its decade-long freeze on post-secondary education tuition in response to rising teaching costs. The change meant university students saw a 4.5 per cent increase in tuition per class this fall, and college students paying up to $100 more than they did last year.
University and college administrators welcomed the increase, but said the hike still falls far short of dealing with rising salaries, budget shortfalls and shrinking endowment fund investments.
Ashton said he did not support the decision to raise tuition and will freeze rates again for two years to coincide with the next provincial election.
city.desk@freepress.mb.ca
