Newfoundland's Memorial University, for example, managed to reduce last year's graduate tuition fee by 10%.
According to the report, the average graduate tuition fee in 2001/2002 is $4360, a 9.8% increase from the previous academic year.
In fact, when the average graduate tuition fee figure is broken down, the data show that changes in grad student stipends depend very much on where you live.
Today's removal of the graduate endowment fee is great news for current and future students and last year's graduates, helping to significantly reduce their debt burden".
"Graduate program fees have on average gone up at a higher rate (11.2%) in the last 5 years than undergraduate fees (6.3%)," says Statistics Canada analyst Peter Elliott.
The anticipated higher graduate tuition fees will also make it hard to recruit Ph.D. students and to persuade them to stay in academia.
The roots of that problem lie in Labour's last great attack on elitism, 30 years ago.In 1969 just 38% of Oxford students were the graduates of fee-paying private schools.
In some cases, creative settlement terms have included giving up equity in the company, as well as graduated licensing fees.
These findings suggest that while shortening the length of the patent term could substantially reduce realized returns, graduated maintenance fees may not adversely affect returns, as firms would be able to identify and selectively renew the subset of high valued patents.
A further complication is that between 2001 and 2007, Scottish students had to pay a "graduate endowment" – a fee of over £2,000 due upon graduation.
Nor is it possible under EU law to discriminate by taxing British graduates but charging fee loans to continentals.
