The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) has published the findings of its study on the impacts of the Government of Ontario’s part-time funding model on colleges and students. Using a mixed-methods approach, HEQCO researchers found that the part-time funding model has had several negative consequences for colleges and learners. These include disincentivizing part-time program development and enrolment, introducing challenges and barriers for students, and creating inconsistent supports across the ON college system. In their concluding notes, the researchers encourage ON to implement an alternate funding model that provides cost-based funding for part-time programming and enrolments to better serve students and institutions alike.
