Indexed tuition favoured: poll

By Paul Delean. With the thorny issue of university fees still unresolved in Quebec, a new Léger Marketing poll indicates a majority of Quebecers would favour seeing them indexed, not frozen or eliminated.
Asked which of four options they preferred, 50 per cent of respondents chose indexing fees by a percentage reflecting the annual increase in the cost of living.
Another 17 per cent advocated increases higher than the cost of living.
Eleven per cent preferred a freeze, and 18 per cent wanted no fees at all. The remaining four per cent abstained from answering. Read more...