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The cost of a university degree in Canada is getting steeper as the tuition fees have continue to rise up. From 2006/2007 to 2019/2020, the tuition fees of Saskatchewan, Quebec and Ontario have risen up for more than 50% change. Why tuition is continuing to going up? In the article , “A vicious cycle: Why tuition is so high and will likely keep going up” by Erica Alini for Global News, it discussed several reasons that why tuition fees is so high and talked about what action students and families will take to study in university while tuition fees will likely going up. A June report by RBC authored who is economist Gerard Walsh said that” The major driver of rising tuition is changes in the way universities are funded. In the mid-1970s provincial governments were directly funding three-quarters of the cost of pursuing a university degree. Since 1990, the government’s share of university funding has fallen by nearly half, while the cost of tuition at Canadian universities has ...

Assignment#4: Data Update 3 Chart Unanswered Questions One question that I cannot answer in my chart with the information I have in my data set, is does the tuition fees always growth each year in Canada or there may be a decline or unchanged in some provinces in recent years. In order to get the percentage change of tuition fees that has growth or declined each year in those provinces, I would need to know the dollars of tuition fees there were for each year from 2006 to 2020. My data set does not contain that information so that question remains unanswerable. How would you get the data? In terms of getting this information, I would go online at Statistics Canada’s website and search for tuition fees by provinces. I was able to find the total field of tuition fees each year in Canada. My only concern would be whether the tuition fees that international students have paid contains or not. Then, I could collect those information and see the actually num...