The Canadian Experiment in Cost-sharing and Its Effects on Access to Higher Education, 1990-2002

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For instance, when the Government of Canada introduced a new $300 million/year need-based grant for students through the creation of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, one of the main effects was not to make students better off, but rather to 5 displace a considerable amount of existing provincial assistance.3 Conversely, when the Government of Canada announced in the winter of 2004 tha [...] Despite the defeat of a referendum on separation in 1995, the razor-thin margin of victory ensured that the threat of separation continued hung over the country for much of the decade. [...] Comparative Changes in Need- and Non-Need-Based Aid Figure 5 further highlights the evolution of need-based and non-need-based transfers to individuals in support of post-secondary education in Canada, here showing the story from the perspective of program spending on the different kinds of aid as opposed to how much students receive (for example, student loans cost less than the actual amount of [...] IV.1 Enrolment and Participation Rates After very strong enrolment growth at both the university and college levels through the end of the 1980s and into beginning of the 1990s, this trend reversed, and small declines were registered over the rest of the decade (Figure 6). [...] Yet the two provinces had similar trends in participation rates: growth in the first part of the nineties, stability for most of the remaining years of the decade (a slight decline in the case of Quebec), and a surge in the new millennium.

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