CANADA STUDENT FEE PROTESTS CONTINUE
Tens of thousands of students in the Canadian province of Quebec have been protesting against a government move to raise higher education costs by 50 per cent for three months.The students have sustained class boycotts, demonstrations and occasional angry confrontations with police for months.
- Jean Charest, Quebec's premier, offered on Friday to stretch out the planned tuition hike over seven years instead of five in a bid to appease the students.
- The proposal would see students pay $255 extra per year instead of the $325 under his previous proposal, but the total would rise from $1,625 to $1,785.
- "We are going to substantially increase the financing of our universities and we're going to support our students," Charest said, urging them to return to classes.
Source: Al Jazeera
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