CMTP

With the reduction in CMTP sponsorship of students for training, particularly women, more of the burden for selection of courses, and financial support will fall to women and the post-secondary system, especially the Community Colleges and Technical Institutes. In order that the burden of sorting out financial assistance and course selection not fall disproportionately on prospective women students, we recommended that the post-secondary system most involved (a) establish, where lacking, counselling services for women to assist in appropriate course selection, and (b) establish, where lacking, financial assistance programs to assist women, particularly in those areas no longer sponsored by CMTP, and (c) to strengthen both counselling and financial assistance programs where they presently exist.

STUDENT ASSISTANCE

As Federal Provincial agreements regarding student assistance are presently being renegotiated, we urge that policies be established which take into consideration the needs of women, particularly single parents for extra day care assistance and other supports to enagle them to study. We recommend that the grant portion of assistance be raised and the loan portion lowered for low income students. We further recommend that student assistance be made available to low-income students for part-time studies.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE STATISTICS

As comparable statistical information for community college students is not available to the public on a Canada-wide basis, as it is for Universities, we urge Ministers of Education to institute measures to make such information available to the public.

ADULT BASIC EDUCATION

As there is presently no level of government in Canada which accepts clear responsibility for the provision of Adult Basic Education to the substantial functionally illiterate population in this country, we urge Ministers of Education to accept clear responsibility and institute appropriate programs.