{"id":51847,"date":"2025-01-17T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=51847"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T00:35:09","slug":"help-shape-the-future-of-student-financial-support-for-post-secondary-education","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/help-shape-the-future-of-student-financial-support-for-post-secondary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Shape the Future of Student Financial Support for Post-Secondary Education"},"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\/action\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Action<\/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\/2025-01-17\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday January 17 2025<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Help Shape the Future of Student Financial Support for Post-Secondary Education<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>High school teachers and counsellors play a pivotal role in helping students explore funding options for post-secondary education. To better support these efforts, the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills (PSFS) is conducting a user research project to improve the digital services available on websites such as <a href=\"https:\/\/studentaidbc.ca\/sabc-home-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">StudentAidBC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workbc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WorkBC.ca<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationplannerbc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EducationPlannerBC<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teachers and counsellors who are interested in participating in this project can <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=AFLbbw09ikqwNtNoXjWa3OLFEDYRn8xOrbLjwKaw0ttUM01YMFBTTkNLUk5STjQ4Uk9DMTJSTEYyVi4u&amp;route=shorturl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sign up<\/a> for a 60-minute online user session. The session will involve a combination of interviews and usability testing. Participants will share their experiences with current resources and provide feedback on potential improvements. Participants will each receive a $50 gift card upon completing the user research session.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With input from teachers and counselors, PSFS hopes to create more user-friendly, effective tools to support students as they navigate financial planning and funding for their post-secondary education.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school teachers and counsellors play a pivotal role in helping students explore funding options for post-secondary education. To better support these efforts, the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills (PSFS) is conducting a user research project to improve the digital services available on websites such as StudentAidBC, WorkBC.ca and EducationPlannerBC.\u00a0\u00a0 Teachers and counsellors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/help-shape-the-future-of-student-financial-support-for-post-secondary-education\/\" 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":[348],"release_date":[1301],"division":[1302],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[658,443,792,453,298,623],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-51847","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-action","release_date-2025-01-17","division-psefs","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-career-education-leads","audiences-directors-of-instruction","audiences-inclusive-education-leads","audiences-indigenous-education-leads","audiences-principals-vice-principals","audiences-provincial-scholarship-leads"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/51847","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/51847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51997,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/51847\/revisions\/51997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51847"}],"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=51847"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=51847"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=51847"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=51847"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=51847"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=51847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}