An organization that represents over 140,000 university students across Ontario on Friday recommended an ambitious agenda of long-term changes that included raising the OSAP (Ontario Student Assistance Plan) maximum to $175 per week, formal instruction in teaching methods and practices to Phd students at a cost of $1 million and regulating tuition fee increases at the rate of inflation.

Ensuring the future of the province’s creative economy will require a serious, well-planned and well-delivered investment in post-secondary education by the Ontario government, according to a new report on higher education.

The report released Monday by the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) said that in order for Ontario to play a leading role in the knowledge economy, the government must first create an affordable, accessible, post secondary education system.