All of Canada's universities are publicly financed, but those in Ontario, the largest province, may soon have to make room for private competitors. That is one of the issues to be studied by a new government commission.
Kris Neiser lost $3,000 of his hard-earned tuition money to a private career college that shut down abruptly last fall after it operated illegally in plain sight of the provincial government for nearly two years, according to the Ontario ombudsman.
Crandall University will not apply for $150,000 that it has received annually as it attempts to move away from an ongoing controversy over what some say are anti-gay policies, according to its president.
MPs and members of New Brunswick’s queer community are demanding answers after a private religious university that prohibits homosexual activity among employees was awarded $6 million in the federal government’s 2013 action plan.
The Education and Training Employees Association (ETEA) has announced that two more groups of teaching faculty from private post-secondary institutions in downtown Vancouver have voted to unionize with them.
The Harper government has awarded over $20 million of its infrastructure funding to Christian colleges and universities since the launch of the Knowledge Infrastructure Program in 2009.
Under a legislative proposal submitted Thursday, Ontario will consider two landmark changes in higher education: For the first time ever, private universities would be allowed, and community...
The Ontario Association of Career Colleges (OACC) presented a set of recommendations to enhance the Private Career Colleges Act review to the Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities, the Honourable Brad Duguid, on Thursday.
A Toronto-based firm that offers a nine-week computer programming training course must be licenced as a private college, according to a statement from Brad Duguid, Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities.
A Toronto-based Web developer “boot camp” that charged a tuition for an intensive nine-week course in computer programming has shut down its operations while under investigation by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU).
In its first year of operation, Lansbridge University is fending off critics who say that, as a for-profit institution, it doesn't deserve grants from the Canadian government.