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> The Cost of Education: Higher and Higher
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By the year 2025, it will cost more than $128,000 for your child to complete 5 years of studies
(2 years of CEGEP and 3 years of university in Quebec).
You can make a difference by starting today to save in an RESP.
You’ll benefit from generous government contributions which can amount to $12,800 per child!
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> Your Expectations: Essential for the Future of Your Little Ones
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> The Reality for Students: Debt (details...)
In Québec
- The number of indebted students has quadrupled in the last two years; *
- 45% of university students (1st cycle) have taken out a student loan with the government; *
- The average debt owed by a student to the government for financing their post-secondary studies
is $19,500; *
- 24% of students report difficulties in repaying their debts. *
* Source: Le Soleil, May and August 2006.
In Canada
- Financial obstacles represent 33% of the reasons claimed by young people for not pursuing
post-secondary studies; *
- The desire not to incur debts was claimed by 32% of young people as an obstacle to
post-secondary studies; *
- 22% of young people who abandoned their post-secondary studies did so for financial
reasons.*
* Source : The Price of Knowledge 2007. Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, 2007.
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