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Ontario lifting post-secondary tuition freeze, boosting funding
- At Queen's Park Thursday morning, Nolan Quinn and Peter Bethlenfalvy announced Ontario will lift its seven-year tuition freeze and add $6.4 billion in funding over four years.
- Federal policy changes left Ontario post-secondary institutions facing losses, with the province calculating a $2 billion annual revenue drop and Colleges Ontario reporting at least $1.8 billion in cuts, 600 suspended programs, and 8,000 job losses.
- The funding package directs money toward 70,000 new seats in in-demand programs, with a focus on small, rural, northern, Indigenous and French institutions, aligned with Ontario's post-secondary funding priorities.
- The government is restructuring OSAP by shifting student aid toward loans with a maximum 25 per cent grant-to-loan ratio and removing eligibility for students at private career colleges.
- The province notes this is the first major change since early 2024 when an injection of just over $1 billion occurred, and the new tuition framework keeps fees below 2019 levels until 2030.
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Tuition set to rise, OSAP grants lower with new Ontario post-secondary funding changes: minister
The province announced billions in new funding for Ontario's colleges and universities Thursday, along with the end of a years-long tuition freeze and changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program grant structure.
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The Toronto StarOntario lifts tuition freeze, unveils OSAP reforms as it adds billions to university and college funding
Ontario is overhauling OSAP, so that financial aid will be mainly loans with far fewer non-repayable grants.
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