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Ten things you need to know about financial support for post-secondary students in Canada : Dix choses que vous devez savoir sur l'aide financière aux étudiants canadiens de niveau postsecondaire

6 Oct 2008

It updates the information published in 2007 in The main purpose of this report is to provide the third edition of The Price of Knowledge. [...] In so doing, we acknowledge a clearer picture of the impact of several pro- that because of the significant differences in gram changes that took effect in the previous provincial financial assistance programs and year, including the increase in maximum 1. Unfortunately, this report does not include data from the three territories, all of which operate student financial assistance programs. [...] The issue in Ontario arose and before the first, in Ontario, occurred at the end of the creation of the Canada Millennium last decade, when the province switched from Scholarship Foundation; a post-graduation to an annual loan remission program. [...] About Financial Support for Post-Secondary Students in Canada b. Despite the recent increase, students receive was not enough to match the 20 percent about the same amount of aid in real terms as increase in the number of student aid reci- those who studied in the mid-1990s before aid pients in that province, resulting in a two per- levels (particularly in Ontario) were cut. [...] The result was a dramatic 44 percent of aid received increase in the value of non-repayable aid by students has Beyond the recent increases in the quantity of received by students between the late 1990s also improved: aid received (noted above), the quality of aid and the early 2000s (28 percent when students receive received by students has also improved: stu- adjusted for inflation) and an incre
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Authors

Berger, Joseph

Pages
22
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Canada

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