{"id":7353,"date":"2024-05-22T15:06:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2024-05-22T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:06:42","slug":"nova-scotia-college-university-students-could-get-more-financial-help-with-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/05\/22\/nova-scotia-college-university-students-could-get-more-financial-help-with-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia college, university students could get more financial help with change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7354\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7354\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/psestudents-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/psestudents-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/psestudents-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/psestudents-1536x860.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/psestudents-2048x1147.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A change to the student assistance funding formula means some Nova Scotia college and university students could get more help. (Communications Nova Scotia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some Nova Scotia college and university students will get more student assistance beginning this fall because of a change in the funding formula.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The updated formula brings the Nova Scotia Student Assistance Program in line with the federal Canada Student Financial Assistance program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part of the formula considers basic living expenses. The living allowance was previously increased based on inflation. It now will also be based on rental information from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. That means some students could qualify for more help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re listening to students and want to make it more affordable for students to stay and build a life here after they graduate,\u201d Brian Wong, Nova Scotia\u2019s minister of advanced education, said Wednesday in a news release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The change will cost about $2.9 million for the 2024-25 academic year, which will essentially be picked up by the federal government. Applications for student assistance are now open.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Nova Scotia college and university students will get more student assistance beginning this fall because of a change in the funding formula. The updated formula brings the Nova Scotia Student Assistance Program in line with the federal Canada Student Financial Assistance program. Part of the formula considers basic living expenses. The living allowance was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2222,651,2224,2219,138,2223,2221,2218,2217,2220],"class_list":["post-7353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-brian-wong","tag-canada-mortgage-and-housing-corporation","tag-canada-student-financial-assistance","tag-college-students","tag-education","tag-nova-scotia-student-assistance-program","tag-post-secondary-education","tag-student-assistance","tag-student-loans","tag-university-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7355,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}