English universities in Quebec are presenting a new counter-offer to the provincial government in hopes to change its plan to hike tuition costs next fall.
The Coalition Avenir Québec government would raise tuition for out-of-province students to nearly $17,000 in the new academic year. The government says the extra funds coming in — estimated to be about $110 million a year — would be redistributed across French-language institutions to bolster French. International student fees would rise even higher.
The proposal from McGill, Concordia and Bishop’s universities is a revised version of the plan presented last month including mandatory French second-language courses to help counter the decline
