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High Tuition Fees - Barrier to Education

The Youth in Transition Survey shows that he most common barrier for dropping out or leaving school was financial – about two-thirds of those reporting facing barriers to going as far in school as they would like cited financial barriers.

The percentages citing financial barriers were similar for post-secondary leavers (71.4%), high school graduates with no post secondary education (70.7%), post-secondary graduates (70.4%), and post-secondary continuers (68.9%).

Source: At a Crossroads: First Results for the 18 to 20-Year-old Cohort of the Youth in Transition Survey: Human Resources Development Canada and Statistics Canada , January 2002

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Caledon Institute of Social Policy <http://www.caledoninst.org/>
Canada Newswire <http://www.newswire.ca/>
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives <http://www.policyalternatives.ca/>
Canadian Council on Social Development <http://www.ccsd.ca/>
Canadian Housing and Renewal Assocation <http://www.chra-achru.ca/english/view.asp?x=1>
Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat <http://www.scics.gc.ca/>
Canadian Policy Research Networks <http://www.cprn.org/index.cfm?l=en>
Canadian Social Research Links <http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/>
The Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being, University of Guelph <http://www.worklifecanada.ca/>
Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada <http://www.childcareadvocacy.ca/>
Childcare Resource and Research Unit <http://www.childcarecanada.org/>
Disabled Women's Network of Ontario <http://dawn.thot.net/>
Flipside, Canadian Alternative Daily <http://www.flipside.org/>
Health Canada: Centres of Excellence for Children's Well-Being <http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/childhood-youth/centres/index2.html>
National Child Benefit <http://www.nationalchildbenefit.ca/>
National Council of Welfare <http://www.ncwcnbes.net/>
Ontario Tenants, Toronto Tenants <http://www.ontariotenants.ca/>
rabble.ca, News for the rest of us. <http://www.rabble.ca/>
Social Union; Main Menu <http://socialunion.gc.ca/menu_e.html>
Social Union; National Children's Agenda <http://unionsociale.gc.ca/nca_e.html>
Straight Goods, Canada's independent online source of news you can use <http://www.straightgoods.com/>
Tristat Resources (Richard Shillington) <http://www.shillington.ca/>
UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 2009 http://www.unicef.org/sowc/
Social Planning Network of Ontario and Poverty Watch Ontario <http://www.spno.ca/>