What Price Education?

This is an article on the increasing cost of higher education and the problems that are caused by a lack of funding in schools. As a rule of thumb, it's rarely a good idea for governments to play Hood Robin: taking money from the poor so they can spend it on the rich. Yet that's what the government of Quebec is doing as it sets university tuition fees. Like his counterparts across the country, Pierre Reid, Quebec's minister of education, needs more money in his colleges and universities. A government that wants to get money into its universities, but hasn't enough money lying around to do the job itself, has called on students to fill the gap. Implementing tuition fees did nothing to slow the growth of the university population, but suddenly those students were bringing more money into the system, improving the quality of the university experience.