On Wednesday, it was a bit of a homecoming for University of Alberta student Ajay Gill as he visited the now quiet campus to meet with Global News. “This has been my first time on campus in like three months, almost,” the fifth-year university student said.
Back in March, he and tens of thousand of other Alberta post-secondary students stopped going to school, physically, as restrictions were put in place to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. “I feel we are missing out on a considerable portion of the education that we paid for,” said second-year NAIT student Joban Dhami.
Following what he describes as his “lower quality” remote learning experience, Dhami started an online petition, which calls for a tuition freeze increase, with remote