{"id":12422,"date":"2016-09-05T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T04:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12422"},"modified":"2016-09-07T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:57:53","slug":"open-space-camosuns-high-international-tuition-fee-should-not-be-decreased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/09\/05\/open-space-camosuns-high-international-tuition-fee-should-not-be-decreased\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Open Space<\/em>: Camosun\u2019s high international tuition fee should not be decreased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">At Camosun College, tuition for international students is higher than tuition for domestic students. People have often expressed concern to us at <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Nexus<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> about this, but as an international student, I believe that the international tuition fee should not be reduced. The high tuition has many advantages for Camosun College, Victoria, and Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In Canada, most schools are public; because Canadian students do not need to pay a high tuition fee, Canadian colleges and universities don\u2019t have much capital, unlike post-secondary institutions in the USA. The international students\u2019 tuition fee is one of the most important sources of funding, and the money can go toward Camosun College infrastructure (hi, Young Building!) and learning tools for classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11815\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4059-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Critics of the new provincial budget say it won\u2019t benefit postsecondary institutions like Camosun College (photo by Greg Pratt\/Nexus).\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4059-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4059.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4059-180x135.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">International students pay more than domestic students at Camosun College\u00a0(file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Camosun can use the money from international students\u2019 tuition to build or repair gyms, art rooms, and libraries, infrastructure which benefits Camosun students, including international students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Secondly, a higher tuition fee can help the college hire great instructors. Because the school can use a high salary to employ a valuable instructor, the students get a good education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The city of Victoria also indirectly gets some advantages. The development of a city needs money, educated people, and circulated sources: people from different cities. Although Victoria is a beautiful city, that isn\u2019t enough of a reason to make people move here and fight the high cost of living and brutal rental situation. However, when an institution like Camosun can give instructors a decent wage, it encourages people to move here for employment opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">This one is definitely an unpopular opinion, but the international students\u2019 tuition puts more money into the pockets of the government. Wait, is that a good thing? Well, the government can use the extra money to, in theory at least, improve the quality of their services and the quality of people\u2019s lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">When people want to go into a new environment and become a new member of the area, they should do something for the place in question. When us international students pay higher tuition it&#8217;s a contribution towards Camosun College, Victoria, and the Canadian government; the international students also enjoy some benefits as Canadians in return.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">When we as international students pay this high tuition fee, we give some things, and we get even more things back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Camosun College, tuition for international students is higher than tuition for domestic students. People have often expressed concern to us at Nexus about this, but as an international student, I believe that the international tuition fee should not be reduced. The high tuition has many advantages for Camosun College, Victoria, and Canada. In Canada, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12423,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions\/12423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}