{"id":7097,"date":"2013-06-11T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2013-06-13T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:35:10","slug":"tuition-increases-at-university-of-victoria-could-potentially-benefit-camosun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/06\/11\/tuition-increases-at-university-of-victoria-could-potentially-benefit-camosun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition increases at University of Victoria could benefit Camosun"},"content":{"rendered":"

With UVic and Camosun both raising tuition by two percent in September, the college\u2019s smaller class sizes and lower tuition costs across the board could give Camosun a competitive advantage, according to administration.<\/p>\n

Both the university and the college announced the tuition raises recently, but UVic also included that \u201clarger class sizes and reductions in teaching assistants, academic advising programs and field-based learning experiences are expected\u201d in their announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cCamosun offers smaller class sizes than universities,\u201d says Camosun marketing and communications strategist Michelle Tinis, \u201cusually around 40 students max per class.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun’s Michelle Tinis (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With tuition increases at both postsecondary institutions in Victoria, students are left weighing the pros and cons.<\/p>\n

Gina Marrelli, a third-year sociology student at UVic and former Camosun student, says she isn\u2019t heading back to Camosun, despite the lower tuition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve already spent two-plus years at Camosun,\u201d says Marrelli. \u201cBy the time I had transferred over to UVic I was really looking forward to being in a different environment. That was more important to me than the fact that tuition fees were higher.\u201d<\/p>\n

But students such as Kimberly Collis, a fourth-year child and youth care student at UVic, are far more concerned about the overall price tag that comes along with advanced education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right time to make education accessible to anyone and everyone is now,\u201d says Collis. \u201cThere is no individual who cannot benefit from knowing more tomorrow than they do today. Who does it help when the cost just keeps going up?\u201d<\/p>\n

Katie Marocchi, chairperson of the BC Canadian Federation of Students, agrees that education needs to be more accessible.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic education is for the public good,\u201d says Marocchi. \u201cHigher learning enhances and enriches our society, and builds a workforce capable of competing in today\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marocchi says that grade school education, which is free, is the basic standard for education in Canada, but with shifting economies and modernization, higher learning has become the new basic standard required for most to participate in the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, for more than just the principle of public education, post-secondary education should be made universally accessible,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Tuition fees are the number one barrier to accessing postsecondary education, says Marocchi.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy keeping tuition fees high, government is choosing to keep families that cannot afford the high cost of postsecondary education out of the system. It is fundamentally unjust that socioeconomic background is the primary determining factor in whether one can acquire a postsecondary education,\u201d says Marocchi. \u201cAverage student debt upon graduation is $27,000. No generation before ours has been asked to shoulder this student debt for a public education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With UVic and Camosun both raising tuition by two percent in September, the college\u2019s smaller class sizes and lower tuition costs across the board could give Camosun a competitive advantage, according to administration. Both the university and the college announced the tuition raises recently, but UVic also included that \u201clarger class sizes and reductions in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7099,"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":[13,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-june-12-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7222,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions\/7222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}