Open AccessOntario’s University Tuition Framework: A History and Current Policy Issues
Author(s) -
Andrew M. Boggs
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v39i1.495
Subject(s) - negotiation , higher education , public administration , government (linguistics) , political science , policy analysis , education policy , revenue , higher education policy , financial policy , set (abstract data type) , public relations , economics , accounting , finance , law , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , programming language
Policy-makers and institutional administrators have long struggled with the question of college and university student tuition fees. In many ways this struggle may be characterized as a negotiation between two distinct policy goals: providing revenue to adequately finance higher education and ensuring student accessibility to higher education. The Government of Ontario has wrestled with these competing questions, resulting in major changes to tuition policy over the last 10 years. This article discusses the history of tuition policy in Ontario, recent developments, and outstanding policy challenges relating to institutional behaviour toward the current policy, set to expire in 2009–10.