Feb 3, 2012
150 University of Windsor students march for accountability in student aid!
150 University of Windsor students marched through campus on Wednesday February 1, 2012. Students complained that the election-campaign promise of a $1600 tuition break applies only to one-third of Ontario’s 900,000 post-secondary students. A day later, Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Glen Murray stated at the University of Windsor that “This is not the end of the line”. Murray stated that the grant, aimed at full-time undergraduates dependent on their parents, in fact covers 310,000 of Ontario’s 600,000 undergrads. He noted that this is the largest student aid increase in Ontario’s history. Taking into account other student aid, he stated that 475,000 students get government help. Murray confirmed that next he will be turning his attention to the remaining 125,000 students, many of them part-time students who cannot afford to go to school full-time.
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