Higher Provincial Spending on Universities Rarely Results in More Educated Populations: Report

Higher university subsidies don’t always result in a more educated population, a new study by a Canadian think tank has found. The governments of Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan consistently spend the most on their universities, yet rank 10th and eighth respectively when it comes to “educational attainment” of a Bachelor’s degree or above, a newly released study by the Fraser Institute revealed.  Ontario, which gave the least amount of money to universities, ranked first with just shy of 30 percent of the population having a Bachelor’s degree or higher. That is almost double Newfoundland’s 16.6 percent and well above Sakatchewan’s 20.5 percent....