Education gets 7.2 per cent spending boost in New Brunswick's 2008-09 budget
Published Tuesday March 18th, 2008
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is boosting education spending by 7.2 per cent in its 2008-09 budget.
The Department of Education will gets almost $942 million in the 2008-09 budget released on Tuesday. The percentage increase is the largest of any department.
Post-secondary education funding is also up, including an extra $12 million to allow the province's four public universities to freeze tuitions for the coming year.
Finance Minister Victor Boudreau says the tuition freeze is an effort to ease the problem of student debt.
He says too many students are forced to graduate with crushing levels of personal debt, or choose not to go to university to avoid the debt.
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