After the Charest government announced it’s $1625 hike in tuition fees, students became mobilized across Québec. This hike would force 7000 students per year to drop out or not enrol in university. The government’s first offer, to “manage the problem” proposed an increase to the hike, to 82%. Then, to throw some oil on the
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This document includes more information about the lawsuit which was submitted to the Superior Court May 25th at around 11:30. The document was submitted by the FEUQ and the FECQ. Below is a brief summary and overview of the request for relief that was submitted earlier today, with the ultimate goal of having certain sections
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Faced with a crisis surrounding the uproar against the Quebec Government, started by the planned hike in tuition fees, the government has chosen to take the most cowardly and irresponsible route possible: it chose to push through a special law to to take away the rights of all citizens–not just students–to demonstrate. Moreover, this law
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On the occasion of the beggining of the winter semester into institutions of postsecondary education, the president of the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ) sign an open letter adressed to students. The purpose of this message is clear: the students will continue to mobilize and force the Charest government to recall its unjustified and
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At dawn, students have erected a memorial to illustrate the death of the study project for all those who, because of rising tuition fees ordered by the government, will have to give up their academics ambitions. They also emphasized that because of the refusal and arrogance of this government that ignores students despite a demonstration
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Photo credits: Polyphoto In the consultations of the High Council of Education on the mechanisms of quality assurance in university teachings, the Quebec Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec raise contentious issues of mismanagement and academic competition. The Federation took the opportunity to submit the government its draft of the Commission for the Evaluation of Universities
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To ease it’s upload, the Campaign guide is now hosted directly on the website. Since the hosting capacity is fairly small, we will monitor the loading speed of the concerned webpages during the next days and find a new way to publish the Guide if the situation requires it. To all those who were dying
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Today, some students will be present at the National Assembly while the official opposition party will use the question period to try to get some answers from the government regarding tuition hikes. It will be possible to follow the debate on television, on theInternet or to read the summary on the website of the National
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Among all the organizations that issued press release supporting the student demonstration on 10 November, we found a rather large student actor: Medical Student Federation of Quebec (FMEQ). Bringing together students from the Faculties of Medicine of the University of Montreal, Laval University, McGill University and the University of Sherbrooke, or all medical students in
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Following the government’s attempt to misappropriate, for partisan purposes, the first recommendation of the Comité consultatif sur l’accessibilité financière aux études (CCAFE), students are organizing a virtual response. The day after the November 10 demonstration where more than 30,000 people marched in the streets of Montreal, the government effectively purchased the keywords FEUQ, FECQ, ASSÉ,
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