Financial Times: McGill pays the price for going it alone

Business education and social policy have collided with a vengeance in Quebec. In the culmination of a long-simmering dispute, Canada’s French-speaking province has levied a C$2m (US$2m) fine on McGill’s Desautels School of Management to drive home its unhappiness at the school’s new self-funding model, which has required a steep rise in MBA tuition fees. The move has also forced the school to sacrifice C$1.2m a year in government subsidies. The government’s view is that McGill has violated a cornerstone of Quebec education policy, namely, guaranteed equal access to taxpayer-funded universities... McGill maintains that the higher fees are essential to maintain standards and compete with other business schools...