Education News

SaskParty Forced To Lower Tuition By Canada Gov.
05 Sept 2010 - SASKATCHEWAN
The SaskParty was forced by federal government law to lower tution or face penalties including loss of transfer payments. A $26 Million Dollar fine was paid by the SaskParty Government for not controlling tution at Saskatchewan Post-Secondary Facilities. SaskParty press releases attempted to suggest they were trying to help students by transferring the money but the simple truth is the SaskParty Government attempted to let the facilities take advantage of Students well beyond what the law allows related to tuition increases.

A Saskatchewan Democratic Action Party Government will make Post-Secondary Education free for Saskatchewan students and write off all student loans in a program designed to retain students who are leaving the province in greater numbers since the SaskParty took power in 2007.

SaskParty Hidden Taxes On Students: It's In The Details
25 July 2010 - SASKATCHEWAN
The devil is in the SaskParty Policy details. Students are being forced to declare SaskParty taxes on their student income, which the SaskParty will claw back on any work. The SaskParty's incompetence, therefore, all but destroys access to Student Loans due to extra income earned through work. Fewer students will be able to get Student Loans, meaning the SaskParty economic numbers will look better on paper but students from Saskatchewan will be increasingly hard-shipped and left behind. Whether this SaskParty-Boondoggle is incompetence or the result of deliberate SaskParty policy planning, Student Loans will cover less and be harder to obtain. Saskatchewan's young citizens will be less able to attend post-secondary education but the SaskParty will show better numbers - quite a trade off.

The vague promises being made today by the two parties in Saskatchewan's Legislature are little better than fine-print vote-traps that deliver nothing. The two parties in Saskatchewan's Legislature are offering Crumbs to go with Student's Water Soup. Add to this the inevitable Tuition-Hikes that SaskParty deregulation encourages & the picture is grim for Saskatchewan students.

SaskParty OKs Big Tuition Increases
05 January 2011 - SASKATCHEWAN
While the hardworking staff and administration at the University of Saskatchewan and other Post-Secondary Institutions throughout the province work hard in an extremely volatile economic environment, the SDAP has a plan to provide much needed support and improved resources to ensure their efforts are not in vain.

It's easy to see SDAP leadership at work. Other parties got interested in tuition relief in the 2007 Saskatchewan General Election when the SDAP released policy documents to media outlining free Post-Secondary education for Saskatchewan Students. Included in the education stimulus package were increased resources for post-secondary administrators to work with. The SDAP plan is Costed, Affordable, and fiscally modest compared to the other two party's plans.

SDAP Education Reform helps students while other party's talk about graduates only - that's a big difference.