AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 minutes agoLearning Access: Iqaluit nonprofit Ampere is preparing a new makerspace hub to expand science, technology and digital-literacy programs that already have waitlists. Early Learning: Cochrane District has 556 children waiting for licensed child care, while staffing shortages have shut 452 francophone spaces in Timmins and Kapuskasing. Civic Education: Six Kootenay-Columbia schools are running mock municipal elections, part of a Student Vote program involving nearly 800 B.C. schools. Student Aid: Ontario has blocked three career colleges from OSAP until at least 2030 as scrutiny grows over private-college recruiting; the funding pause is also affecting students at the National Ballet School and a divinity college. Post-Secondary Pressures: Foreign-student enrolment at Atlantic Canadian universities has fallen nearly 50 per cent since 2024, with job and program cuts reported at Providence University College.
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