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man888 · 发表于 2007-8-10 21:16

When arrived to Edmonton to start my graduate studies on 2004, me and
my friend rented a very nice, spacious and shiny 2-bedroom apartment
in one of the Boardwalk's high rise buildings (Galbraith House) for
680 CAD(everything was included), believe it or not the same apartment

is more than 1300 CAD now.(I still have a copy of the contract and for

the current price look at this link
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%
increase in housing cost!

While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying
600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.

Other costs of leaving have also increased and the university
increases the tuition fee by few percent every year and international
differential fee was increased by almost 20% last year. Add to this,
the fact that the university housing has no more space for newcomers
and most of the newly admitted students who applied for housing were
asked to look for a residence on open market.

While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has
increased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid
exactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our
admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students
=19500CAD. What I get is something around 1000CAD/month!!! after
tuition fee and taxes). To make the argument easy to understand just
imagine that a new student gets the same amount of money that I am
getting now and I was getting 3 years ago but he or she (like all of
us) has to pay twice as much as I was paying for housing when I was
admitted and has to incur at least 70% more in average living costs.

Also have in mind that Alberta is a rich province and University of
Alberta has a remarkable record in absorbing various money and grants
from different governmental and non governmental sources and graduate
students are the main pillars of research work at the university.

My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention
is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and
especially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take

initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?

Please come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank you all
Ali

lischka · 发表于 2007-8-10 22:07

It is true. Nobody cares about the international students. They are just making money from us.

椹敳� · 发表于 2007-8-10 22:56

L o L

man888 · 发表于 2007-8-11 00:04

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