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Ford says OSAP auditors will clear low-risk career colleges first; no timeline givenCareer college students say they don't know how they will pay their rent and living expenses, let alone tuition, without their OSAP funding that had been previously approved.PoliticsNov 4
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OSAP pause hits paramedic students bound to work in underserved areasSome paramedic students approved to receive funding through a government program aiming to boost health-care staffing have been swept up in the provincewide pause on student aid.CanadaNov 3
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Thousands of OSAP applications came from a single IP address, ministry allegesIn completing its final decision to deny the schools OSAP eligibility this year, the ministry appears to have taken a closer look at IP address activity.PoliticsNov 2
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Ontario pauses some skills training funding for unemployed people: career collegesThe Ford government is pausing at least some funding through Better Jobs Ontario, which helps unemployed people get skills training.PoliticsOct 28
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OSAP ‘fraudsters’ in private career colleges ‘going to jail,’ Doug Ford claimsFord insisted that while the government grants come with "trust" and an expectation that "people are going to be honest," the OSAP system was defrauded by "bad actors."PoliticsOct 27
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Ontario begins probe of eight private career colleges over alleged OSAP ‘fraud’The government said investigators "gathered information and interviewed individuals" at the unnamed career colleges and suggested it plans to widen the inspections.EducationOct 20
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OSAP pause leads career college to suspend classesAn Ontario career college has suspended its academic operations as a result of a province-wide pause on student financial assistance to all private post-secondary institutions.EducationOct 17
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National Ballet School, divinity college students among those affected by OSAP pauseA recent pause on financial assistance payments to private post-secondary institutions in Ontario is affecting divinity schools.PoliticsOct 16
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Second career college court challenge reveals concerns about ‘bona fide studies’Ontario's colleges and universities ministry is alleging it could not "reliably determine bona fide studies" at two of the career colleges it barred from student financial aid.PoliticsOct 15
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Liberals allege Ford government has political ties to career colleges under OSAP probeThe Liberals alleged Wednesday that cabinet ministers attended the campus opening of one of the suspected colleges mere months after the school was probed by government inspectors.PoliticsOct 14
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