Exploring Theme: "Funding for Aboriginal Schools"

NationTalk: VICTORIA – The work of First Nations to provide post-secondary education to their communities will be supported by ongoing funding provided under new legislation, reflecting the integral role of First Nations-mandated post-secondary institutes as a key pillar of B.C.’s post-secondary education system. “This legislation and the funding it commits will support the critical work...

NationTalk – Thanks to collaborative, innovative funding from the province and education non-profits, member institutes of the Indigenous Institutes Consortium (IIC) will be developing and improving virtual learning in Ontario for Indigenous learners. Following a historic $50-million investment in the Virtual Learning Strategy (VLS), the IIC formed a new partnership with eCampusOntario to advance the virtual...

Response to the Saskatchewan government investment of $60M over 2 years in post-secondary education: Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies has the tools to realize ambitious and innovative initiatives to support the economic development of Saskatchewan Indigenous peoples,” Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Vice-President, Academics Tavia Laliberte said.  “Stable core funding is essential to building the internal...

CBC – The Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning is planning to use $13 million in new federal money to diversify its programming across the North. The money was promised to the centre over the next five years in the 2019 federal budget. The new funding will make land-based education more accessible....

Investing an additional $56 million over three years beginning in 2017 for Indigenous Institutes to expand their capacity and strengthen their role as an important pillar in Ontario’s postsecondary education system. The changes would create a framework for ongoing collaboration between Ontario and Indigenous Institutes and would support a strong, independent Indigenous Institutes sector, overseen by an...

$185,000 in funding for the 2017-18 academic year to promote retention and academic success among Innu students and to foster appreciation of culture and language among Indigenous youth by enabling some 1,800 students living in seven Innu communities on Quebec’s North Shore to retain their culture and their language through the development of teaching materials...

While the funding responsibility for First Nations based-operated schools on reserve rests with the federal government, the Province is contributing in several ways: The Province, as of 2008/09, pays reciprocal tuition to these schools whenever they serve students otherwise eligible for a free B.C. public school education. B.C., Canada, and First Nations, as represented by...