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“The priority of the provincial government should be to make public travel to asia post-secondary education more affordable, not find new ways to fund and promote private institutions,” said Anna Goldfinch of the Ontario branch of the Canadian Federation of Students.
“When the Ontario tuition grant came in at first, a number of college bursaries … were eliminated to help fund it,” said Linda Franklin, travel to asia president of Colleges Ontario, an advocacy group for the province’s publicly funded colleges.
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Monday’s announcement also means students who take five-year co-op programs in publicly funded institutions also qualify. Previously, the tuition discount was available only to students for four years out of high school.
But Emily Hedges, spokesperson for Colleges and Universities Minister Brad Duguid, said the move “brings a level of fairness to all students” in that those who are eligible for provincial student assistance can now also apply for the grant.
Enrolment at Ontario’s publicly funded colleges is now the highest it has been, with a 125,000 students enrolled full-time in their first year, a 5-per-cent increase over last year. In total, colleges have 220,000 full-time and 300,000 part-time students.
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