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A new kind of student aid : Nouvelle forme d'aide financière aux étudiants : création, mise en oeuvre et évaluation des bourses d'accès du millénaire

19 Dec 2007

Research Note Series Part of the mission of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation is to improve access to post-secondary education so that Canadians can acquire the knowledge and skills needed to participate in a changing economy and society. [...] M I L L E N N I U M R E S E A R C H N O T E # 5 W W W. M I L L E N N I U M S C H O L A R S H I P S. C A 1 A New Kind of Student Aid: Creating, Implementing and Assessing the Millennium Access Bursaries research on the distribution of financial aid assistance largely on the basis of income, not demonstrates that low-income students receive need; they allow for significant jurisdictional “ While the [...] However, the operations.4 The initiative was designed to grant programs are distinct in two important complement the existing Millennium Bursary ways: first, the Foundation’s bursaries are Program by specifically targeting funds to available to students in all jurisdictions while low-income students, even if they did not have the Canada Student Loans Program does not the highest levels of financia [...] It sought to provide non-repayable are considered eligible for the access bursary assistance to students under-represented in using the National Child Benefit criteria, but post-secondary education according to the the bursaries are delivered in a different man- needs defined by each provincial and territori- ner than the Canada Access Grant. [...] In While the millennium access bursaries are a Saskatchewan, the bursaries are provided to national initiative provided to students in Aboriginal students (additionally, in Manitoba, every province and territory, they are not a portion of the access bursaries are set aside administered in a one-size-fits-all manner.
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Authors

Berger, Joseph

Pages
16
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Canada

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