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While price gouging by monopolistic publishers is certainly unpleasant, the very same universities complaining about the issue raise tuition and fees disproport
by mankash666 10y ago
While price gouging by monopolistic publishers is certainly unpleasant, the very same universities complaining about the issue raise tuition and fees disproportionately.
Save a few public universities, the Canadian and American universities operate just like the publishers they complain about.
- mizzao 10y agoAs opposed to the many private institutions in the US, Canadian universities are all publicly funded and tuition costs a few thousand dollars at the most.
- vonmoltke 10y agoWhere was mankash666 talking about private universities?
- vemy 10y agoUdeM is pretty great actually: https://admission.umontreal.ca/en/student-info/costs-financing-scholarships/tuition-and-fees/ https://admission.umontreal.ca/en/student-info/costs-financi...
- michaelhoffman 10y agoI've talked to publishers who say they can justify charging high prices because it does not come from "taxpayers" but instead from tuition. While that is not entirely accurate, universities failing to push back against high costs for serials contributes to higher student fees.
- mynameisvlad 10y agoAs mizzao pointed out, Canadian universities are publicly funded. Tuition rates went up a few percent over the course of my 5-year degree, and the most I paid for a year of studies was ~5600 at UBC (the lowest being ~5400). It really is nothing like the publisher UdeM is complaining about.