Re-capturing the early 80s
Alex Usher,
HESA,
Jan 15, 2025
The diagram that opens this article is of particular interest to me because it starts almost exactly when I started university - the fall of 1981. As I've described it in later years, there was a thin slice of time in 1980s Alberta where someone like me - with a poor academic record and no money - could get into university, a window that closed soon after. Much of my time as a student journalist and leader in the years that followed were focused on the issue of accessibility. I still consider it the key issue in education today. And now, as we approach a worldwide higher education funding crisis, I wonder what people like me will do in the future.
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