Post-secondary study juggled with job here
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UNIVERSITY and college students in Manitoba are more likely to work part-time during the school year and work those jobs for longer hours than post-secondary students elsewhere in Canada.
Statistics Canada released those surprising numbers Wednesday in a wide-ranging survey of student jobs — surprising, because Manitoba has the country’s third-lowest tuition rates and a higher percentage of students stay in the province than anywhere else in Canada.
“It does beg the question,” said Cindee Laverge, dean of student services at Red River College.
StatsCan says that slightly more than 50 per cent of our post-secondary students work during the school year, at a national-high 18 hours per week.
University of Winnipeg vice-president academic John Corlett said he’s increasingly seeing students who are working almost full time, and whose employers demand the job comes first. “Something ends up giving, and unfortunately it’s academics,” he said.
The U of W is attracting a much wider range of student, Corlett said. Some inner-city students need to work to support their families while they study. Some students end up taking a degree over five or even six years because they spend so much time working.
Though tuition here is relatively low, Corlett said, how much a student makes in the summer can affect how much she needs to work during the school year. In parts of southern Ontraio, a student can earn $19 to $21 an hour in an auto plant, he said.
Andrea Dyck, 23, an arts student at the U of W, splits her time between school and her job as a server at Buccacino’s restaurant in Osborne Village. She needs the work because her parents live in Carman and she had to move to Winnipeg so she could go to university.
“Most students that live with their parents just pay their cellphone bills. I have a lot more expenses, like rent and hydro,” she said. “I’m pretty good at juggling it all.”
Laverge, of RRC, pointed out that the Ben Levin report on post-secondary education, which led to the lifting of the tuition freeze in 2009, found that Manitoba students “are averse to borrowing and there’s less debt in Manitoba.
“Those students need to get their funding from other sources,” generally borrowing from parents or working, Laverge said.
nick.martin@freepress.mb.ca