[C]lasses at the University of California are only becoming more crowded and teaching assistants harder to find – even though students pay double the tuition of just five years ago, say graduate-student teaching assistants who released a report on Tuesday they call “Towards Mediocrity: Administrative Mismanagement and the Decline of UC Education” … Class size isn’t the only problem identified by the students. More than half of graduate students offered a spot at UC choose to go elsewhere. The reason, say students, is clear from UC’s own survey, conducted in 2010, showing that UC offers comparatively cheap financial packages to prospective doctoral students. The deals for teaching stipends and tuition waivers are $2,697 a year lower than those of competing institutions. Combined with California’s higher cost of living, the survey shows the gap is closer to $4,978 a year.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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