Increasing student debt, high tuition fees and a lack of jobs were at the top of the list of concerns voiced by students appearing before the Senate of Canada's Subcommittee on Post-Secondary Education. The Subcommittee is in Vancouver examining the state of higher education in Canada. The student representatives made several recommendations, including increasing student grants, making student loan repayments tax deductible and allowing loans to be re-paid by performing community service.
Parliamentarians feel something has to be done.
We have the best educated generation in the history of the country and yet its unable to find a secure economic place.'' University and college educators also made presentations to the Subcommittee.