The Government of Ontario has implemented significant reductions in non-repayable student grants, citing fiscal instability within the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP).

安大略省政府以安大略省學生援助計劃 (OSAP) 財政不穩為由，大幅削減了無需償還的學生撥款。

The fiscal trajectory of OSAP has been characterized by a substantial increase in expenditures, totaling $465 million in additional grant spending between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years. Data obtained via freedom-of-information requests indicate that 95 per cent of this growth is attributable to students enrolled in private career colleges. Specifically, grant allocations for career college students ascended from $554 million to $994 million during this interval, surpassing the combined total provided to university and publicly funded college students. In contrast, university grant funding experienced a marginal decline from $370 million to $354 million, while publicly funded college grants rose from $349 million to $386 million.

OSAP 的財政軌跡呈現支出大幅增加，在 2023-24 與 2024-25 學年度之間，額外撥款支出總計 4.65 億加元。透過資訊自由請求獲得的數據顯示，這項增長的 95% 可歸因於就讀私立職業學院的學生。具體而言，職業學院學生的撥款在該期間從 5.54 億加元上升至 9.94 億加元，超過了提供給大學及公立學院學生的總和。相比之下，大學撥款從 3.7 億加元輕微下降至 3.54 億加元，而公立學院撥款則從 3.49 億加元增加至 3.86 億加元。

In response to these trends, Minister Nolan Quinn announced a structural realignment of financial aid, reducing the maximum proportion of non-repayable grants from 85 per cent to 25 per cent. While career college students have been rendered ineligible for these grants—aligning with federal policy shifts—the broader reduction affects all post-secondary students, increasing the reliance on loan-based financing. This policy shift follows a 2017 reversal of the grant-to-loan ratio by the previous administration, which the 2018 Auditor General's report suggested would lead to significant cost escalations, though pandemic-related demand fluctuations deferred the realization of these projections until recently.

為了應對這些趨勢，部長 Nolan Quinn 宣布對財務援助進行結構性調整，將無需償還撥款的最高比例從 85% 降低至 25%。雖然職業學院學生已不再符合這些撥款的資格——這與聯邦政策的轉向一致——但廣泛的削減影響了所有高等教育學生，增加了對貸款融資的依賴。這次政策轉向繼 2017 年前任政府逆轉撥款與貸款比例之後發生，2018 年的審計長報告曾指出這將導致成本大幅攀升，儘管與疫情相關的需求波動將這些預測的實現推遲到了近期。

Stakeholder positioning remains polarized. The administration maintains that such measures are requisite to ensure the program's long-term viability. Conversely, opposition figures and the College Student Alliance contend that the fiscal burden was disproportionately driven by private institutions and that the current strategy penalizes students at public institutions. Furthermore, the government has concurrently allocated $6.4 billion over four years to the post-secondary sector to mitigate revenue losses resulting from federal restrictions on international student immigration.

利益相關者的立場依然兩極分化。政府維持認為這些措施是確保計劃長期可行性的必要條件。相反，反對派人物與學院學生聯盟則主張，財政負擔主要由私立機構推高，而目前的策略懲罰了公立機構的學生。此外，政府同時在四年內向高等教育部門撥款 64 億加元，以緩解因聯邦限制國際學生移民而導致的收入損失。

The Ontario government has shifted OSAP from a grant-heavy to a loan-heavy model to address rising costs primarily driven by private career college enrollment.

安大略省政府將 OSAP 從撥款主導模式轉為貸款主導模式，以解決主要由私立職業學院就讀人數增加而導致的成本上升問題。