Ontario to offer free tuition for students from low-income families

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Ontario to offer free tuition for students from low-income families
Topic Started: Feb 26 2016, 12:58 PM (326 Views)
Darcie	Feb 26 2016, 12:58 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: The vast majority of students whose family income is less than $50,000 a year will receive free college and university tuition under changes to student aid made in this year’s Ontario budget that represent the most radical shift in decades in how the province delivers loans and grants to postsecondary students. The changes eliminate multiple loan and grant programs, and replace a complicated system with one program, the new Ontario Student Grant. Finance Minister Charles Sousa said the cost of the OSG will be “roughly the same” as the current level of $1.3-billion in aid. “In fact, we’ve put in the budget the ability to further support an increase. We want this to be oversubscribed. We want to have more students who would not otherwise look to postsecondary,” he said. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/low-income-ontario-students-to-get-free-postsecondary-education/article28916789/?click=sf_globefb This is good because a country whose citizens are well educated is usually a country where the economy is usually much better. This is a courageous move on the part of this government because anyone and everyone who has an income over $50,000 will be bitching.

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swing	Feb 28 2016, 08:12 AM Post #31
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	Thanks Delphi, did not realize this. I do think people have to study what they are interested in. I know if I'm not interested in something I just gloss over it! I've also worked with natives people who have a fully funded education and they take years to complete a degree. There should be a time restraint or no freebies!



blizzard	Feb 29 2016, 03:43 AM Post #32
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,152 Group: Member Member #1,012 Joined: July 8, 2013	If a time restraint with no freebies would that mean no time restraint if fully funded by he student? Finances are what have kept me from finishing my degree. I have two 2 year diplomas, three years university, still no degree. At this point I do not need one, I just want it!



wildie	Feb 29 2016, 09:00 AM Post #33
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Delphi51 Feb 27 2016, 04:34 PM Any word on the cost? I guess Ontario can afford it by selling off some more shares of Ontario Hydro. And perhaps it will pay for its cost in increased productivity over the long term. It has been said that too many students are taking some programs. Perhaps it would be more productive to use this program to encourage students to take training for careers that need more people. It will be paid for on the NEVER,NEVER PLAN, As the Brits would say! It was announced on the CBC news today that our Ontario deficit is now $300 billion which is the highest deficit being carried any governing body in the world. Ontario used to send money to Quebec in order to allow them to offer free tuition to their universities. What are the poor Quebecers going to do if they don't have Ontario paying their way? Edited by wildie, Feb 29 2016, 09:01 AM.



Darcie	Feb 29 2016, 09:06 AM Post #34
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	wildie Feb 29 2016, 09:00 AM Delphi51 Feb 27 2016, 04:34 PM Any word on the cost? I guess Ontario can afford it by selling off some more shares of Ontario Hydro. And perhaps it will pay for its cost in increased productivity over the long term. It has been said that too many students are taking some programs. Perhaps it would be more productive to use this program to encourage students to take training for careers that need more people. It will be paid for on the NEVER,NEVER PLAN, As the Brits would say! It was announced on the CBC news today that our Ontario deficit is now $300 billion which is the highest deficit being carried any governing body in the world. Ontario used to send money to Quebec in order to allow them to offer free tuition to their universities. What are the poor Quebecers going to do if they don't have Ontario paying their way? None of the countries that have free tuition have gone bankrupt so I am not going to project. This decision seems good, selling our hydro company is a really bad move IMHO



friendshipgal	Feb 29 2016, 11:43 AM Post #35
Guess everyone wants their own Trudashians Posts: 12,815 Group: Member Member #241 Joined: February 12, 2006	It's not really 'free'. What the gov’t is doing is selling tuition-sized grants to low-income students—for a sticker price of $3,000 and – cancelling the tuition credits, which I don't think people have picked up on yet. (cancelling of credits) http://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/the-next-ontario/dont-call-ontarios-new-grant-free-tuition



swing	Feb 29 2016, 12:51 PM Post #36
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	If a time restraint with no freebies would that mean no time restraint if fully funded by he student? I suppose if a student wants to take six years to get a three year degree, and pay for it then that's his choice. I worked with a native girl when in real estate in Ottawa. She was doing an undergrad in economics. I asked her how many courses she had left, she didn't know. My Dh has an undergrad in economics, I said to him how would she not know how many courses she had left??? He said because her degree is gov't funded! This is what i meant about a time restraint, finish the courses in the required time frame or you pay, what a novel idea!



Darcie	Feb 29 2016, 12:57 PM Post #37
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Swing, from what I know the grants are tied to course load and not to time. If you want to take a degree part time then your grant is proportionate to the courses, not to the time it takes you.



swing	Mar 1 2016, 04:58 AM Post #38
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	Swing, from what I know the grants are tied to course load and not to time. If you want to take a degree part time then your grant is proportionate to the courses, not to the time it takes you. Thanks Darcie did not realize this. However this girl would begin a course then decide to not continue for some reason. I would imagine in this case there would be no reimbursement to the gov't. My daughter's step daughter did this for three years in Kingston. SIL paid for a full course load, she dropped several then had to take an extra year this year, and came for more $$.



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