Students protesting a tuition fee hike.

The student movement is fighting a tuition fee increase.

The evaluation of teachers.

It is universally acknowledged that a quality education system has a profound influence on economic prosperity. In the long run, only a trained and productive population can improve its quality of life in a sustained manner. It is after all in order to promote access to education that the Quebec Department of Education was established in 1964. Today, this Department has an annual budget of $15.5 billion, the equivalent of 25% of Quebec government program spending.

Léger Marketing opinion poll commissioned by the Montreal Economic Institute.

The teaching of religion in Quebec's daycare.

The students’ collectivist discourse.

The MEI suggests allowing universities to set their own tuition fees and letting those fees vary according to program of study.

In February 2004, the MEI published an Economic Note on tuition fees and their effects on access to university studies. Since then, the Quebec government announced that fees would rise cumulatively by $50 per semester from 2007 to 2012. It is still not known what policy will be adopted after 2012. To this day, Quebec tuition fees are still lower than their 1994-1995 level in real terms. This Economic Note is an update which aims to examine the university tuition fee situation in Quebec.

Publication of an Economic Note on university financing.