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National Ballet School, Divinity College Students Among Those Affected by OSAP Pause
The move affects private universities, colleges and performing arts schools as officials cite audit concerns and say 10% of one school’s revenue depends on OSAP.
- On Friday, Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn announced a province-wide pause on Ontario Student Assistance Program payments to private institutions, citing preliminary audit findings that prompted a referral to the Ontario Provincial Police.
- The province tasked KPMG with auditing OSAP usage after data revealed seven career colleges received $385 million in grants, the same amount distributed to all Ontario's publicly funded colleges that year.
- Alessia Di Palma, a student at Canada's National Ballet School, expressed deep anxiety over the indefinite freeze, saying, "My heart sunk when I found out because it's unfair that I've had this funding for four years and then the fifth year it's just gone."
- Quinn said he is "working on" securing low-interest loans for affected students, though no timeline exists. Toronto Film School president Andrew Barnsley reported "tremendous uncertainty and anxiety" among students who made commitments based on expected aid.
- The broad nature of the pause affects all private post-secondary institutions, including divinity schools and performing arts colleges, with students describing it as a "trawling net-like policy" that sweeps in unrelated schools alongside suspected bad actors.
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National Ballet School, divinity college students among those affected by OSAP pause
TORONTO - A recent pause on financial assistance payments to private post-secondary institutions in Ontario is affecting divinity schools, Canada's National Ballet School and many others, with students feeling unfairly
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