It’s terrifying, to be honest, said the 21-year-old, who’s studying child and youth care. I’ve been at Ryerson for two years now on free tuition and it’s still very difficult.
Mather is one of thousands of students hit last week by the provincial government’s announcement of a sweeping package of reforms to the Ontario Student Assistance Program and tuition. Those are changes that many students say will make paying for their education much more difficult or impossible.
Mather says it might cost her the chance to finish her degree. The whole reason she decided to go back to school, after a year off, was the free tuition program, introduced by the Liberal government in 2016.
This means that you’re https://paydayloanadvance.net/payday-loans-sd/ tied to your parents’ income longer, and your OSAP grants and loans calculation will be connected to your parents’ income for six years after you’re out of high school, rather than four
All her tuition was covered under the grant and she also qualified for an OSAP loan that covers living expenses, such as the $1,300 in rent she pays for a basement apartment with her partner in Ajax.
It includes a 10 per cent cut to tuition fees across the board, but it also means the end of both free tuition for lower-income students and of the six-month grace period on interest being charged on loans after finishing a degree
Mather has an idea of what it will be like without the free tuition because she started her post-secondary education at Carleton University in 2015, before it kicked in. Continue reading Students call Tories funding changes frustrating, terrifying and devastating