Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand that NAIT is offering one of their projects on an 11-week schedule now, whereas SAIT maintains a 12-week schedule. I have been approached by parents of students who have tried to attend NAIT and have been refused student financial assistance simply because the exact same program, exact same qualifications, exact same certificates at the end of it, in one institution is one week shorter than the other. To me, it doesn't strike me as being fair that we should arbitrarily put a time limit on a program when everybody says it's the same program. It's just that they go for longer hours during the 11 weeks, that they attend one institution as compared to the other and wind up with the same certificate. We won't pay student financial assistance for one student to go to NAIT, but we would for a student to go to SAIT. How do we justify that?
Charles Dent on Bill 3: Appropriation Act, 2003-2004
In the Legislative Assembly on February 26th, 2003. See this statement in context.
department Of Education, Culture And Employment
Bill 3: Appropriation Act, 2003-2004
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 26th, 2003
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