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The Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Aid project, today released a set of four working papers focussing on the issue of student retention. The key findings are that the problem of student retention at a system level is much less severe than previously thought, that higher tuition and student finances have a relatively small effect on retention and that evaluating the effects of student loans is a complex problem.
"These papers provide important new evidence on post-secondary pathways and the financial factors that affect them in Canada," said Dr. Ross Finnie one of the papers' authors and Research Director of the MESA Project. "These findings require the policy community to take a new look at how we view retention issues in higher education and what needs to be done from a policy perspective."
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