When are we going to start seeing these kind of initiatives in Canada?

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

“Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025”

(btw: this is a first step to free, universal post-secondary, which is what the goal should be!)

Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025

Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (news.mit.edu)

@chris
University tuition was mostly or almost free until the 1970s

Eric Lawton

@NMBA

My undergraduate degree in England, completed in 1972, was completely free.

Not just tuition but a livable grant for food, rent, books and incidentals.

The university charged tuition but my town's Education Authority paid it and the grant. For one UG degree only.

No loans involved.

There's no reason we can't return to that system.

@chris

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@EricLawton @NMBA
“but how will we make sure lazy people don't use it for nothing”

or some other stupid nonsense retort from neo-liberal capitalist stooges.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@NMBA I know.
Boomers got theirs then screwed the generations after!

(Sorry to the Boomers in the room who sympathize!)

Eric Lawton

@chris

Even worse: I left home sharing my parents' Conservative ideology and returned as a socialist.

@NMBA

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@EricLawton @NMBA UNIVERSITY TURNED YOU INTO A RED

@chris @EricLawton
They tried, but I was already;)

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@NMBA @EricLawton lol

Zephod Beeblebrox

@EricLawton @NMBA @chris

My OND, HNC and HND were free and I graduated in 1990. I had to do my BA part time as the full time courses had become paid things. I started my BA in 1992 and completed it in 1998.