{"id":24311,"date":"2023-06-15T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=24311"},"modified":"2023-06-23T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T18:36:30","slug":"tuition-waiver-program-for-former-youth-in-care","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/tuition-waiver-program-for-former-youth-in-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition Waiver Program for Former Youth in Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hide-on-main\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-action_or_info wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/action_or_info\/for-info\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Information<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-release_date article-release-date wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/release_date\/2023-06-23\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday June 23 2023<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Tuition Waiver Program for Former Youth in Care<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gov.bc.ca\/28354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Provincial Tuition Waiver Program<\/a>\u00a0is available to former youth in care studying full- or part-time at the undergraduate level at a BC public post-secondary institution, the Native Education College, or one of 10 union trades training institutes. Effective August 1st, program changes will include removing the age criteria, expanding eligibility, and introducing a new annual $3,500 grant to cover additional education costs. More information is available in this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bced.gov.bc.ca\/bulletin\/20230623\/provincial-tuition-waiver-program-handout.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Provincial Tuition Waiver Program handout<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Provincial Tuition Waiver Program\u00a0is available to former youth in care studying full- or part-time at the undergraduate level at a BC public post-secondary institution, the Native Education College, or one of 10 union trades training institutes. Effective August 1st, program changes will include removing the age criteria, expanding eligibility, and introducing a new annual $3,500 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/tuition-waiver-program-for-former-youth-in-care\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"action_or_info":[353],"release_date":[837],"division":[368],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[658,443,298],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-24311","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-for-info","release_date-2023-06-23","division-epd","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-career-education-leads","audiences-directors-of-instruction","audiences-principals-vice-principals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/24311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/24311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24536,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/24311\/revisions\/24536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"action_or_info","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_or_info?post=24311"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=24311"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=24311"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=24311"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=24311"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=24311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}