Open AccessCanadian Universities: Who Benefits and Who Pays?
Author(s) -
Rondald Meng,
Jim Sentance
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v12i3.182871
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , higher education , point (geometry) , low income , sociology , economics , economic growth , political science , public economics , demographic economics , geometry , mathematics , computer science , operating system
The following article deals with university education in Canada and its redistri- butive effects. From an economic point of view, there are two fundamental questions: first, which students are the principal beneficiaries of a university education? Secondly, who in Canadian society primarily bears the cost of edu- cating university students? As the following article shows, the answers to these questions are not encouraging, if we view universities as institutions that strive for greater economic equality in Canada. Children of high income families tend to be the ones that capture the bulk of the financial rewards of a university degree, while low income families often pay a disproportionately large share of educational expenditures.