Cambrian hikes tuition fees

Cambrian College announced it would raise tuition rates 4.5 per cent for most first-year students. File photo.

Feb 24, 2011- 9:00 PM

By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff

The majority of Cambrian College students will pay several hundred dollars more per year to attend school in the fall.
The college’s board of governors approved tuition and student fee increases at their Feb. 24 meeting.

Tuition fees will increase 4.5 per cent for most first year students, four per cent for most second year students and four per cent for most third year students. A $120 fee for the college’s athletic centre is also being tacked on.

Factoring in tuition and student fees, most first year students will pay $3,236 next fall, as opposed to the $3,001 they’re paying this year.

Most second year students will pay $3,223, as opposed to the $2,971 they’re paying this year. Most third year students will pay $3,192, as opposed to the $2,948 they’re paying this year.

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Dom4444 2/28/2011 8:02:18 PM - Report Abuse

This is great!!! we students have tons of cash!!! i can't wait this give the college that much more because i have tons of cash.
Motorboat 2/26/2011 11:24:26 AM - Report Abuse

Bill_1

They are paid less for lower attendance. The more students they get to show up the more they get paid. Not that they get paid if only 5 show up. This is because they are rated on quotas. Marks and attendance play a big part. Lots of these contract teachers have been caught cooking the books, many of them have given passing grades to the entire class regardless of marks or attendance just so they make their quotas.

Believe me my facts are strait. This is the future of the educational system as well as many other industries across the country. Low paid temporary or casual employees who have ridiculous quotas or numbers who are usually paid 25-40% less than the job used to traditionally pay. These employees are usually sub contracted from a company owned in whole or in part by the company buying the contract. No pensions or benefits either.

Over the next decade or so as all the baby boomers retire, expect 80% of all employment in Canada to adopt this system.
Motorboat 2/26/2011 11:15:46 AM - Report Abuse

Blame the provincial and federal government, they are the ones who allow these institutions to gouge students and spend their funding irrisponsibly.

Also the govt are the ones who issue student loans with a take it or leave it living expense loan for school regardless of whether or not you need the living expense portion, knowing full well it will be spent on all other things but school and that it will financially cripple the recipient over the course of the next decade. You cant just ask osap for a tuition loan.

The whole post-secondary education system is a farce. The entire system should be audited and more regulations should be put in place to ensure that these institutions are functioning responsibly. So many people have been taken for a ride by this system, got themselves eyeballs in debt, only to come out finding that the course they took has no real worth and that their field has no jobs.

This system needs to change.
Bill_1 2/26/2011 11:15:06 AM - Report Abuse

Get real. Teachers aren't paid on daily attendance. If 50 are enrolled, it doesn't matter if 10 show up for class. They are on a contract so their pay doesn't change. Some are paid by the hr. and the same applies. 50 students or 5. They get the same pay.Get your facts straight.
ChrisRedfield 2/25/2011 11:35:29 PM - Report Abuse

Why isn't the student union doing something about this? Isn't that what they are there for, to protect students from things like this? Sounds to me like it's just as useless as the unions (I'm looking at you UFCW) in the working world.
JBender 2/25/2011 12:31:07 PM - Report Abuse

The whole educational system is out of control and the only way they can keep running is jack up tuition and taxes.Institutions are mis-managed,overstaffed and over paid from top to bottom and will eventually cause the system to implode from greed.
Motorboat 2/25/2011 9:39:43 AM - Report Abuse

cellar, actually the uality is getting worse. I went to cambrian back in 2005, then you were given 30 hours of class time a week for a trade program. When i went back in 2008 it was reduced to 24 hours per week, and then 22 hours the following semester. To top it off, teachers allow the students out of class 30 - 45 min early so really your not getting very much class time even though the college will tell you the majority of your tuition money is what pays for this.

Most of the teachers arent even employed by the school now. Many of them are on contract through agencies. The worst part about all of this is that they are paid based on attendance, the more students that show up for class, the more they get paid. Many of these teachers dont even teach the class and let the students do what they want just so they continue to show up for their class.

With these sort of prices more should be done to ensure that the program you are going into is the one you want. I seen people take course after course to find out it either wasnt what they wanted or that there was no jobs in that field when they graduated. The schools statistics for job opportunities are fabricated or exaggerated. The school usually calls with a survey about 6 months after you complete your program and all they ask is if you are currently employed. They dont ask if you are working in your field. You could be working at mc donalds but they willl use this statistic to show their next batch of prospective students and say look at our 80% success rate of finding a job after taking our course.

Cambrian is one crooked school in my opinion, i can go on about their shady business forever but the fact of the matter is that the new tuition rates are not worth it.
cellardoor 2/25/2011 7:46:16 AM - Report Abuse

And the quality of education will remain the same of course, nothing will be improved, the school will be the same, sad place.
Phillip Morris 2/25/2011 7:28:47 AM - Report Abuse

No worries Bill_1.
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