OSAP ‘Criminal Allegations’ Referred to Police, over 2 Years After Concerns First Raised

LILLEY: OSAP scandal shows what happens when nobody’s watching

How do you get to the point where the cops and the auditor general are being called in to deal with problems in the Ontario Student Assistance Program?

OSAP ‘criminal allegations’ referred to police, over 2 years after concerns first raised

The province is also pausing all loans after concerns over some colleges’ ‘high-risk admissions practices’ and ‘compromised participation in asynchronous programs’

Ontario pauses OSAP payments to private postsecondary institutions, refers matter to OPP

The Ontario government has paused all OSAP payments associated with private postsecondary institutions and referred concerns about the integrity of the student aid system to the Ontario Provincial Police, the Minister of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security said in a statement Tuesday. The ministry began receiving an increasing number of complaints about OSAP applications […]

Scott Stinson: Ontario calls in the police to investigate its own career-college gravy train

The numbers are, in a word, staggering. And, with the caveat that so far all that anyone can say from a legal perspective is that it all looks quite fishy, the story is that the Ontario government allowed itself to shovel hundreds of millions of student-grant dollars out the door for a period of months, if not years, with what must have been vanishingly little oversight. It’s the kind of thing that would cause Doug Ford to sputter in indignation…

Ontario refers concerns about OSAP payments at private career colleges to OPP

Ontario has asked provincial police to look into student financial assistance payments at private career colleges after auditors identified “serious concerns” about possible criminal activity and “egregious” use of public money, the government said Tuesday. Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn said the ministry launched targeted inspections of career colleges last year in response to growing concerns about Ontario Student Assistance Pr…