The three Niagara dailies (St. Catharines Standard, Niagara Falls Review and Welland Tribune) released a January 2 article on Niagara College and Brock University that recently expressed support of recommendations made by a blue-ribbon panel put in charge of examining the financial future of the province’s post-secondary institutions.

Recommendations included raising tuition by five per cent this fall with future increases of no less than two per cent a year, as well as boosting provincial funding to post-secondary schools by 10 per cent in 2024-25, followed by increases of a minimum of two per cent.

In the article, President Sean Kennedy said he had hoped the panel would take the time to examine the “multi-piece puzzle that when put together is a very powerful post-secondary system.” He notes, “I was glad to see that it didn’t look to just one or two components, but looked, really, at a broad range of key challenges and then made some great recommendations that we hope the government will consider and adopt.”

Read the St. Catharines Standard article here.