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Medicine Hat College to receive $4 million in funding

Mar 16, 2017 | 3:26 PM

CALGARY – Medicine Hat College will benefit from funding in the provincial budget in 2018.

The college is among institutions who will receive $270 million in funding over the next three years from the Ministry of Advance Education.

The college will receive $4 million in funding in 2018. The money is earmarked towards development of the college’s east campus.

Advanced Education also announced the tuition freeze at all post-secondary institutions will remain in effect until the end of the 2018 school year.

The provincial budget has set aside $6 billion for funding for the Ministry of Advanced Education. Projects in the province receiving funding from the province include $149 over the next four years for the University of Calgary for renovations to its dental and pharmacy program facility, $122 million over the next four years for a destination project at the University of Lethbridge, $10 million this year for Lethbridge College’s Trades and Technology program, and $8 million for campus upgrades at Keyano College in Fort McMurray.

It’s not just post-secondary students who will receive help from the budget.

The Ministry of Education is budgeting $8.2 billion dollars for 2017-18 , and has put forth Bill 1 to reduce school fees for school supplies and transportation fees for students who have to travel a distance to their school by 25 per cent. The government expects families across the province will save $54 million next school year.