Stephen Gordon: How to get more Canadians into university? Don’t reduce tuition fees

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Gordon: How to get more Canadians into university? Don’t reduce tuition fees
Stephen Gordon, National Post, 2016/01/27
This is an old (old old old) argument, yet it gets trotted out every once in a while by some economist. The perpetrator in this case is Stephen Gordon from Laval. Here's the gist: higher-income students form the majority at universities, so higher-income students would benefit disproportionately from tuition fee reductions, therefore, fees should not be reduced. More...