February 25, 2005

Study Urges Ontario to Increase Higher-Education Spending

By KAREN BIRCHARD

A high-powered advisory group said in a report issued this month that the Ontario government must put at least a billion dollars more into its higher-education system by 2007-8, and that every qualified student, regardless of means, should be guaranteed a place at a college or university. The province has the most colleges in Canada and the most postsecondary students.

"When you look at how other provinces and other countries fund their systems and are likely to fund their systems in

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