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Call to Action # 62: Education for Reconciliation (62-65)

The Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning may lose public funding

March 21, 2018

CBC – The Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning — the N.W.T.’s ‘bush university’ — is voicing concerns that proposed territorial legislation would exclude it from core public funding. A new discussion paper by the territorial government on the governance of post-secondary institutions — the first step toward accrediting such institutions in the territory says Indigenous institutes, which are Indigenous-governed and operated, would fall under the private sector and outside of the publicly funded post-secondary system. The school also said it ignores the territorial government’s responsibility to protect treaty rights and provide quality public education. CBC