Кто учится в Канаде?

Здесь это называется RA (Research Assistanship). Я не знаю сегодняшних расценок, но раньше комбинация RA/TA (Teaching Assistanship) покрывала tuition fees, и даже оставляла что-то на жизнь (для местных студентов). Достаточно ли это чтобы обеспечить возросшие tuition fees я не знаю.

Конечно, кроме RA и TA для grad students существует масса конкурсных scholarships которые могут сильно помочь - и за которые ничего делать не нужно :) Но практика показывает что выиграть их иностранным студентам крайне сложно...

Sorry, my bad. Я только что прочла первый Женин пост. Я себе почему-то вбила, что она заинтересована в биохимии и только. Потому и привела фармацевтику как приер работы. I also mentioned that SFU , for instance, makes no difference between domestic and international students' fees at the graduate level. UBC ( which is in Vancouver as well) does charge international students triple price, however they provide good bursaries as well.

And Jenia, you don't work for professor only. You help/assist him/her between classes you are supposed to take for the completion of Masters. AS Dmitry said there is no free schooling in Canada.

Но практика показывает что выиграть их иностранным студентам крайне сложно...
- depends on your GPA.
In my university ~99% of graduate students don't pay tuition, we all have scholarships/TA

Анна, what do you mean they don't pay tuition? Of course they do, it's just they also receive an income that covers their tuition fees. RA and TA are almost guaranteed in some programs by the universities, while scholarships (e.g., NSERC Scholarship) are competitive. Maybe the situation has changed, but in my time students coming from foreign education systems had hard time winning those - probably because it was not easy to match local GPA to average grades from overseas.

Of course thats what I mean. Don't pay from their own/their parents pockets.
RA, TA + some scholarship from grad studies from the university is usually enough to cover tuition. Plus many students are hired as sessional lecturers.
But, of course, everything depends on school, student's quialifications, program etc etc etc

Дмитрий прав. По вашей, Анна, логике, мы здесь ни за машины, ни за дома, ни за продукты и т.д. не платим. Все покрывается зарплатами :)

Вот ей богу, достали. Читаете вообще? Где я писала про машины-дома-продукты?

А как это понимать: "Don't pay from their own/their parents pockets. RA, TA + some scholarship from grad studies from the university is usually enough to cover tuition. Plus many students are hired as sessional lecturers." ?
С машинами/домами то же самое. Они покрываются моими заработками/грантами. Включите логику :) Никто бесплатно в Универах не учится. Просто студентам дают возможность заработать и на обучение и на жизнь. Они зарабатывают, это попадает в "их карманы", а уже потом "from their pockets" они платят за tuition. Бесплатно - это когда зарабатывать не надо.

У вас хобби такое - придираться к словам?
Никто бесплатно не учится, не в России, просто стипендия конкретно tuition fees покрывает. Понятие "платить из своего кармана" значит что платят родители, или человек приехал из России уже с деньгами чтобы заплатить за учебу, или зарабатывает где нибудь в Сабвее чтобы платить tuition fees и никакого финансирования из университета не получает.

I totally agree with Anna. If you were not a student, the University will not provide you with Scholarship, TA/RA positions. The latter are provided purposely for students to cover their tuition/school expenses. The condition of getting any of the before mentioned financial aids is that you are a Grad student.

And I'm getting paid by the company I work for because I work for that company. That's a condition for my getting paid :)

You guys are missing the point. There *are* free university programs in the world, say in Europe (read, no tuition), but not here. Yes, you are right that those positions and being a student are related. But if you are a student, you *must* pay the tuition fees - but TA/RA/scholarships/etc are not guaranteed (though common). RA and TA require you to perform work, so they are not given "for free". The school rather have you mark the midterms than toss lettuce at Subway. None of that is strictly speaking a financial aid - financial aid is bursaries and government loans explicitly designed to help with the tuition costs.

You also need to consider the money sources. RAs are not funded by the schools - they are paid by the professors out of their grants they won to carry their research. Scholarships are often provided by third-parties too, not universities.

Next argument, tuitions fees for the foreign students are much higher than for the domestic - yet the pay rate for the TA units, for example, is the same. The two things are not one and the same.

Think of it this way. A brilliant student gets admitted to Harvard on a full scholarship. Harvard usually runs you $50K a year in tuition alone, but it will be covered by the scholarship for that student. Can you say that Harvard is free?

Ну Дмитрий вроде все разъяснил девушкам. И, кстати, в России обучение во многих Универах бесплатное. Про Универы знаю, ибо сам работаю в Университете, ну и связан по работе с Питерским Универом.