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Ontario lifts tuition freeze, unveils OSAP reforms as it adds billions to university and college funding
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
The province is pouring $6.4 billion into colleges and universities over the next four years, and also lifting its tuition freeze, allowing small increases in the coming years… While the province had boosted post-secondary operating funds for 2025-26 to more than $5 billion — an eight per cent increase over the prior year — it remained the lowest per student of any province.
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4 ways to empower students to spark social change
Monday, January 12th, 2026
… students crave more than passive listening and are eager to translate knowledge into actionable solutions… Simple, everyday activities can be life-changing when integrated into traditional teaching. The key is shifting from one-way lectures toward open dialogue, peer collaboration and personal reflection. These changes foster the trust and inspiration students need to ask better questions, listen deeply and see themselves as capable of creating real-world change.
Tags: Education, participation, youth
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Ontario: The new pragmatism
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
Some 17 out of Ontario’s 24 universities are, or have been, under government mandated third-party efficiency reviews, and many are dealing with deficits and related cuts to programs, faculty and staff… But after all the bruising and battering, universities have found ways to adapt, and some are emerging in fighting form.
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Slim pickings in course calendars
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
… between 2020 and 2024, Ontario’s population increased by 9.5 per cent, from 14.7 million to 16.1 million. Provincial funding for universities didn’t keep pace, increasing by just 6.7 per cent, from $4.2 billion to $4.6 billion, over that time period… “a student shouldn’t have to worry if the courses they need to fulfill their degree will be offered…”
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Should back-to-school require parent fundraising? Ontario schools are woefully underfunded, and families pay the price
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Taking over boards can be seen as a distraction tactic as the government is asking them to meet growing needs with fewer resources. Instead of increasing funding, which is necessary and long overdue, the government is likely to cut costs in the short term by privatizing services, a trajectory researchers have documented for some time. These shifts to the private sector are shortsighted attempts to balance a budget that only serve to raise the taxpayer burden over time.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Doug Ford’s fiscal time bomb is devastating Ontario’s colleges
Monday, July 14th, 2025
The root of the crisis in higher education lies with the fiscal time bomb planted by Doug Ford’s provincial government when it came to power seven full years ago… The latest job losses and cancelled courses were always foreseeable, because post-secondary funding remains unsustainable… universities say the government’s chronic underfunding will leave them unable to find spots for 80,000 worthy Ontario applicants over the next five years.
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Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to nearly 10,000 job losses, union says
Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
… the suspended and cancelled programs are not only those primarily attended by international students. “It’s also programs we domestically need, programs like nursing, child and youth care, environmental technologies, specialized art training that is not offered anywhere else,” … the 10,000 reported layoffs represent a staff reduction of about 17 per cent in a workforce of more than 60,000… but is not proportional to the 45 per cent reduction in student enrolment,”
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Ontario adding 2,600 teacher college spaces amid shortage
Friday, May 23rd, 2025
Teachers union presidents say adding 2,600 new teacher education spots is a good start toward addressing the shortage but the government needs to work on not just recruitment, but retention… “There’s 40,000 people who are fully qualified, who aren’t working in education right now, and that’s because of the working conditions — the crumbling buildings, the overcrowding, the violence in the classroom… “You can put more bodies in, but are they going to stay?”
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction, standard of living
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In my next teacher-parent meeting, my focus will be the teacher. Here’s why
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
Since Premier Doug Ford came to power in 2018, school board funding has dropped a stunning $1,500 per student, on average, when adjusted for inflation. The increase in class sizes and the introduction of mandatory online courses have resulted in the province having 5,000 fewer teachers than it would otherwise… With Ontario asking teachers to do more with less and blaming them for the shortfalls of underfunded schools, recruitment and retention will only become more challenging.
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MPPs Acknowledge Ontario Public Universities Require Additional Funding
Friday, November 15th, 2024
OCUFA maintains that public universities rely too heavily on international student tuitions, due to decades of underfunding from the provincial government… increasing provincial funding to universities by 11.75% per year for five years [would] bring Ontario in line with the Canadian average of per-student funding. Currently, Ontario’s per student funding is dead last in the country…
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