鎶楄��瀛︽牎鍔╁�﹂噾澶�灏戯紒

man888

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  
1 S1 v0 H0 |; [$ w6 Y680 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
0 L% U5 ]7 W2 B( N  
4 I4 M" G1 B; J, tthe current price look at this link  
http://www.bwalk.com/Rental/infosheeta.asp?projectno=92). 100%  
+ U' l* }8 {9 ~' `0 U" ~3 Lincrease in housing cost!
; P! b: y/ H4 {1 r! q
While I was paying 340CAD/month for more than a year, I鎶� paying  
0 _+ R) q/ L  {; g( I& _600CAD/month plus utilities right now, some thing around 700CAD/month.
% C6 g/ [' ^0 d% }* w  
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,  
2 x& z1 Q/ L- y) \! H3 Qthe 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.
. _0 }/ V5 g& M6 _+ l( h1 q
& P, B2 Q  |! F. n( n8 A4 |While the average cost of living for a typical graduate student has  
, S% A2 T! F5 T# L: cincreased by something more than 70% percent we are getting paid  
, \' J* [5 P1 T$ o. Q+ J' N! Dexactly for the same amount of money that we were offered in our  
4 r7 y' r2 f  S3 {0 C, ?admission letter (18000 CAD + 1500 CAD for international students  
% F( r. R: u( W5 t=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.
* v( R! p5 ]. ]  [4 ]7 c) U1 [- w
My objective in bringing all abovementioned points in your attention  
is to question the adequacy of financial aid for graduate and  
9 L; a! R( K8 eespecially international students. Isn鎶� it time for the GSA to take
' y6 ^% h1 {9 R) P+ P  
initiative in raising the issue of increasing financial aid for  
graduate students so that the can afford this increase in costs?
4 Y; D* y: r/ P- W! ]
Please come with your experiences and ideas.
Thank you all
3 w; \0 l7 L) f3 [Ali

lischka

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

椹�鐢蹭

L o L

man888

妤间笂鐨勶紝鏈変粈涔堝ソ绗戠殑锛岃繕绗戝嚭澹版潵浜�