Dal, King’s latest Atlantic Canada schools offering former kids in care free tuition

Two Halifax universities are joining a growing checklist of put up-secondary schools in Atlantic Canada offering free tuition to a pair college students who frolicked in foster care growing up.

Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College protest the original tuition waiver applications will relieve take away financial barriers and abet former formative years in care to glance greater training.

Dalhousie says this would possibly possibly well duvet tuition for 10 college students a year, whereas King’s says this would possibly possibly well offer two tuition waivers each year.

The announcements by the Halifax schools reach as a growing number of universities and colleges in the four Atlantic provinces are eliminating tuition prices for latest or former foster younger other folks, steadily known as authorities or Crown wards.

Final November, Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax turned the main university in Atlantic Canada to inaugurate a tuition waiver program particularly for former formative years in care.

Memorial University of Newfoundland adopted swimsuit later that month, with the Nova Scotia Community College, Holland College in P.E.I. and the New Brunswick Community College launching same applications earlier this year.

This file by The Canadian Press was once first printed Aug. 7, 2021.