University of Manitoba to hike grad student fees up over 300%

Many graduate students at the University of Manitoba are frustrated after learning the school wants to hike their fees.
Grad students pay a program fee in their first year plus a yearly “continuing fee” every year after that.
Right now, the continuing fee is $700 per year, but the Faculty of Graduate Studies wants to increase that incrementally to $3,000 a year by 2016 — an increase of nearly 330 per cent. More...