{"id":19748,"date":"2020-07-15T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19748"},"modified":"2020-07-15T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T00:04:33","slug":"government-announces-new-supports-for-students-including-1-5-million-for-students-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/07\/15\/government-announces-new-supports-for-students-including-1-5-million-for-students-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Government announces new supports for students, including $1.5 million for students with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, July 15, minister of advanced education, skills and training Melanie Mark announced new supports for post-secondary students studying in BC at a press conference held from Camosun College\u2019s Interurban campus.<\/p>\n<p>Mark announced an investment of $1.5 million to 20 public post-secondary institutions in BC for supports for students with disabilities; this amounts to $75,000 for each college, including Camosun. This money will go toward supports for students with cognitive or physical disabilities or mental-health struggles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18999\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18999 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2923-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2923-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2923.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camosun College&#8217;s Lansdowne campus (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mark also announced that 25 new textbooks are available through BC\u2019s open textbook collection; Mark said that this will include free math, trades, business, and design, textbooks, and a book in Cree.<\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, students can apply to StudentAid BC to access to a new, non-repayable BC Access Grant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/2020\/03\/04\/provincial-government-announces-new-student-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which was announced in early March<\/a>. Students who apply for student aid will automatically be assessed for the grant, which will give them up to $4,000 a year, depending on the length of their program. More than 40,000 low- and middle-income students will have access to the grant.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government through Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada also recently announced COVID-19 supports for international students.<\/p>\n<p>Key features of the new supports include priority study-permit processing for those who have submitted a complete application online, the ability for students to count time spent taking online classes abroad toward their eligibility for a post-graduation work permit (at least 50 percent of their program has to be completed in Canada), and a temporary two-stage approval process for students taking programs online who are unable to submit necessary documentation for the processing of their applications.<\/p>\n<p>International students generate over $21 billion in economic activity in Canada, according to the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, July 15, minister of advanced education, skills and training Melanie Mark announced new supports for post-secondary students studying in BC at a press conference held from Camosun College\u2019s Interurban campus. Mark announced an investment of $1.5 million to 20 public post-secondary institutions in BC for supports for students with disabilities; this amounts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19750,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19748\/revisions\/19750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}