Ontario Government (Conservative majority), 2025-29

[lenaitch]

Ontario Learn and Stay Grant

Apply for funding to cover the costs of tuition, books and other direct educational expenses for health human resources programs.

www.ontario.ca

North region
Thunder Bay (25)
Sudbury (24)
North Bay-Parry Sound (14)
Northwestern (16)
Northeastern (15)
Algoma (1)

East region
Eastern Ontario (5)
Ottawa (17)
Renfrew County (20)
South East (22)

Southwest region
Huron Perth/Oxford Elgin St. Thomas (10)
Southwestern (23)
Lambton (11)
Middlesex-London (12)
Chatham-Kent (2)
Windsor-Essex County (28)
Grey-Bruce (7)
Grand Erie (6)

Ontario Learn and Stay Grant

Apply for funding to cover the costs of tuition, books and other direct educational expenses for health human resources programs.

www.ontario.ca

Yes - I heard of that. Too bad it came a little late for our daughter. She went to university in the north and stayed, so she (we) could have saved some coin in tuition.

I think the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Sudbury/TBay) has something similar.

When you said "staff", I thought you were referring to Ontario civil servants. The OPP now has quite generous posting allowances for the north, amounts vary by location. When I was working, the 'duration posting allowance' might have bought a case of beer after taxes.

 

[mariomike]

Yes - I heard of that. Too bad it came a little late for our daughter. She went to university in the north and stayed, so she (we) could have saved some coin in tuition.

Regarding the Ontario Learn and Stay program.

The Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs (OAPC) said the province still relies on a two-year college diploma that tries to compress three years of education. Many colleges are now pushing to replace the two-year diploma proram with a three-year undergraduate degree.

More than half fail.

Right now, they only get so many college seats per year. And when more than half the students fail, that cuts our graduates in half. They’re saying, ‘Give us an extra year, and we can get graduation rates close to 100 per cent by giving students the time and support they need.’”

With more than half failing the two-year diploma program, that cuts the graduates by more than half.

OAPC wants it to be a three-year program.

I think its also a good idea to educate students on what they are getting into - before they get fed into the 9-1-1 system.

Is Queen's Park ready to ante up for three years tuition. Or, go cheap with two?

 

[HavokFour]

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[Fishbone Jones]

Regarding the Ontario Learn and Stay program.

The Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs (OAPC) said the province still relies on a two-year college diploma that tries to compress three years of education. Many colleges are now pushing to replace the two-year diploma proram with a three-year undergraduate degree.

More than half fail.



With more than half failing the two-year diploma program, that cuts the graduates by more than half.

OAPC wants it to be a three-year program.

I think its also a good idea to educate students on what they are getting into - before they get fed into the 9-1-1 system.

Is Queen's Park ready to ante up for three years tuition. Or, go cheap with two?

Queen's Park doesn't ante up for anything. The taxpayer does.

 

[lenaitch]

Regarding the Ontario Learn and Stay program.

The Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs (OAPC) said the province still relies on a two-year college diploma that tries to compress three years of education. Many colleges are now pushing to replace the two-year diploma proram with a three-year undergraduate degree.

More than half fail.



With more than half failing the two-year diploma program, that cuts the graduates by more than half.

OAPC wants it to be a three-year program.

I think its also a good idea to educate students on what they are getting into - before they get fed into the 9-1-1 system.

Is Queen's Park ready to ante up for three years tuition. Or, go cheap with two?

There's a difference between a 3-year diploma course and an undergrad program. What would two more semesters do to improve the graduation rate? Less intencity?

 

[mariomike]

There's a difference between a 3-year diploma course and an undergrad program. What would two more semesters do to improve the graduation rate? Less intencity?

Not sure exactly why the fail rate is 60 per cent.

I read it in this article in the Sault Star.

Calls grow for reform of Ontario’s paramedic regulations

The Northern Ontario Service Deliverers Association (NOSDA) conference held in the Sault on Wednesday is themed “Human Services: Made in the North.”

www.saultstar.com

Sage said the province still relies on a two-year college diploma that tries to compress three years of material. The fail rate is 60 per cent.

Greg Sage, president of the Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs

I know Greg from when he worked in Toronto.

 

[Kilted]

Not sure exactly why the fail rate is 60 per cent.

I read it in this article in the Sault Star.

Calls grow for reform of Ontario’s paramedic regulations

The Northern Ontario Service Deliverers Association (NOSDA) conference held in the Sault on Wednesday is themed “Human Services: Made in the North.”

www.saultstar.com

Greg Sage, president of the Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs

I know Greg from when he worked in Toronto.

They can still work privately, they just can't call themselves paramedics. There are companies who employee them along with EMRs.

 

[mariomike]

They can still work privately, they just can't call themselves paramedics.

The Chiefs put it this way,

There are no paramedics that work in mines or no paramedics that work in the Ring of Fire, or in in heavy industry, Because to work as a paramedic in Ontario, you have to be working for a paramedic service in a 911 capacity.