Students at the University of Manitoba will pay hundreds of dollars more for their tuition when they return to school in the fall. On Tuesday, the university's board of governors approved a 6.6 per cent tuition increase for all students enrolled in 2018-19 classes. That translates to an average of $260 for domestic students taking a full course load, and $1,036 for international students, the University of Manitoba Students' Union said in a news release Wednesday. That adds up to a 6.6 per cent increase. "UMSU believes a more reasonable approach could have been taken that did not include the maximum increase allowed under provincial law — which is higher than the average provincial increase rate, in any Western Canadian province, since 2012," UMSU said in the release.

Source: CBC News May 24, 2018 01:30 UTC