The Ontario government's operating grants to the province's universities, allowing for inflation and enrolment growth, declined by $348 million, or 17%, between 1995-96 and 2000-01, according to a study--University Funding Cuts: Shortchanging Ontario Students--released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The study, by researchers Hugh Mackenzie and Mark Rosenfeld, found that the government's reliance on tuition fee increases to offset its funding shortfall has imposed onerous hardships on many students.
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