Representing Ottawa at the meeting on Friday morning were Mayor Jim Watson, West Carleton-March Coun. Eli El-Chantiry, and Pierre Poirier, head of emergency management at the city. Continue reading
Only a small proportion of funding has been linked to institutional performance in recent years – 1.4 per cent for universities and 1.2 per cent for colleges – but that will go up to 60 per cent in the next five years. Continue reading
A local biopharmaceutical company that got its start at McMaster University has received $105 million in funding for cancer therapy research. Continue reading
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In January, Training, Colleges and Universities Minister Merrilee Fullerton announced what the government calls a “student choice initiative,” a new fee model which allows students to choose what they want to pay for and how that money will be allocated. Continue reading
Under a new framework, tuition would decrease by 10 per cent for the 2019-2020 year, then be frozen for the following year. Continue reading
Ontario will not reverse the cancellation of a proposed French-language university despite a federal commitment to extend funding for a team working on the project, the provincial government said Monday. Continue reading
The Doug Ford government has announced it will cancel more than $300 million in funding for planned university and college campus expansions in Brampton, Milton and Markham, citing a large multi-billion-dollar provincial budget deficit. Continue reading