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2024 provincial university budget not cutting it, says CUFA BC
Peak Web May 9, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer The Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia (CUFA BC) released a statement regarding the 2024/25 provincial budget and its impact on students, universities, and their resources. The Peak spoke to Annabree Fairweather, executive director of CUFA BC, about the issues brought forward by the confines of this year’s budget and ways to overcome them. The budget allocated $3.89 billion to post-secondary institutions. According to Fairweather, this isn’t enough. She said CUFA BC “had hoped for more money to come into the sector,” to account for the growth and needs of university students in…
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The double life lived by student sex workers
EIC May 24, 2016As Ava* embarks on the first semester of her master’s program, she is relieved that the admissions committee at her graduate school didn’t find out about one of her part-time jobs. The University of Calgary environmental sciences student dabbled in…
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