Published plans and annual reports 2019-2020: Ministry of Colleges and Universities

Ministry overview

Purpose

The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities is responsible for Ontario’s postsecondary education and employment and training systems.

The ministry provides operating and capital funding to publicly-assisted colleges and universities, establishes provincial objectives for the use of public funds and designs frameworks for achieving these objectives. The ministry also ensures that high quality postsecondary education is accessible to all qualified candidates through tuition regulation, student assistance, targeted funding and accountability mechanisms and experiential learning opportunities.

The ministry designs, delivers and supports a range of policies and programs related to workforce development, talent retention, apprenticeship and labour market training to eliminate skills gaps and enhance employment opportunities for all Ontarians. The ministry also manages and funds provincial employment and training programs and services, including adult literacy and basic skills, and undertakes labour market research and planning.

Ministry contribution to priority outcomes

Ontario’s government is working for the people to create jobs and make Ontario open for business, balance the budget responsibly and keep money in people’s pockets. The ministry will contribute to these priorities by making sure postsecondary education, skills development and employment programs are sustainable, protecting these public services for future generations. The ministry will support job creation by ensuring the postsecondary and employment and training sectors are efficient and aligned with Ontario’s labour market needs. By helping students access high-quality education, helping job seekers plan their career and get jobs and by helping employers find the right workers for their business, Ontario will be restored to its rightful place as the economic engine of Canada. Areas of focus include:

• Modernizing the skilled trades and apprenticeship system to address the skills gap, ensuring that Ontario businesses continue to have access to talent with the skills they require to support the economy now and in the future.
• Making postsecondary education more affordable and cost-efficient by refocusing the Ontario Student Assistance Program to help those who need it most, implementing a province-wide tuition rate reduction, giving students more choice over the fees they pay at school and linking postsecondary operational funding more closely to performance.
• Transforming and integrating Ontario’s employment services to help job seekers, including those on social assistance, to find and keep good jobs and help employers recruit the skilled workers they need.
• Redesigning and continuing to offer employment and training programs, including adult education programs, that are efficient, cost-effective and focused on outcomes.

Ministry programs

Note: Total amount includes statutory appropriations and consolidations. Operating and Capital assets are not included.

Employment and training

The government wants all Ontarians to have the skills they need to get a good job. The ministry is committed to making sure job seekers can connect with opportunities to find and keep good jobs, employers can hire the skilled workers they need to thrive and the province has the best possible employment services in order to restore Ontario to its rightful place as the economic engine of Canada. This will be achieved by equipping more people with the skills needed to get quality jobs through apprenticeships, transforming employment and training services to improve labour market outcomes for job seekers — while reducing administrative burden — and maximizing the benefits of skilled immigration to the economy.

Reforming apprenticeship and supporting the skilled trades

Apprenticeship combines classroom and work-based training for people who want to work in a skilled trade. Based on Ontario-level projections by Employment and Social Development Canada, about one in five new jobs in Ontario over the next five years is expected to be in trades-related occupations. Ontario’s government is working for the people to modernize apprenticeship and the skilled trades system, removing unnecessary red tape and making it easier to access and navigate for both employers and workers.

Ontario’s skilled trades offer careers leading to secure jobs that are also vital to the health and growth of the economy. Apprenticeship opportunities help businesses harness new talent while equipping workers with the practical skills and qualifications that the economy needs now and in the future. The government’s plan to improve Ontario’s skilled trades and apprenticeship system:

• Reduces the regulatory burdens placed on businesses, apprentices and journeypersons.
• Closes the skills gap by establishing programs that encourage the people of Ontario to enter the skilled trades, get retrained and become aware of the benefits of good paying jobs in the trades.
• Reviews Ontario’s apprenticeship structure and enacts reforms to increase access to apprenticeship opportunities.

In fall 2018, the government introduced the Making Ontario Open for Business Act 2018, which reduced journeyperson-to-apprenticeship ratios where they apply, placed a moratorium on trade classifications and reclassifications and enabled the wind-down of the Ontario College of Trades (OCOT).

The government’s vision for a modernized, client-focused apprenticeship and skilled trades system will be implemented through the following initiatives:

• Establishing a new governance framework through proposed new legislation to replace the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009.
• Encouraging employer participation in the apprenticeship system through a new financial incentive program to support employers to come together and train apprentices.
• Modernizing service delivery in apprenticeship by developing a new client‐facing digital system, including a one‐window digital portal for apprentices.
• Promoting apprenticeship and the skilled trades as a pathway choice for all students from kindergarten to Grade 12.

Part of this modernization approach includes a new flexible framework to enable training and certification in a full trade or in a portable skill set, which would allow training and certification within and between trades.

Redesigning skills training programs

Employment Ontario is the province’s network of employment and training programs which supports job seekers and employers. Each year, about one million people are served by Employment Ontario. Skills training can be critical to helping people find work and supporting employers to create and fill jobs. However, according to a 2016 report from the Auditor General, the majority of clients in Employment Ontario’s Second Career program have been unsuccessful in finding full‐time employment in their new career.

Beginning in 2019, the government will make changes to Second Career and other skills training programs to ensure they are helping job seekers get the skills they need to find work. This will include a review of financial supports available to laid‐off workers, making sure people get the assistance they need to reskill for new jobs. This review will also include the supports provided to employers who want to invest in training for their own workforce.

The redesign will also support the development of more short‐duration credential programs, which focus on skills that employers are seeking and help people find stable work more efficiently. Ontario will also be launching a micro‐credentials pilot, which will create new, responsive training programs to help people develop the kind of in‐demand skills that employers are seeking.

Transforming the delivery of Ontario’s employment and training system

Ontario’s employment and training programs are critical to building the skilled workforce that keeps Ontario open for business. However, as the 2016 Auditor General’s report noted, further improvements can be made to the employment and training system to effectively help people find and keep full-time jobs. The current employment services system is unnecessarily complex and not sufficiently focused on getting the results job seekers, employers and Ontario’s economy needs to grow and succeed.

The government announced on February 12, 2019, that it is transforming the way employment services are delivered by:

• Enhancing Ontario’s labour market website, which features 500 job profiles to help learners and job seekers explore their first or next career, and identify opportunities for relevant education, training and re-skilling. The website will include improved navigation to the Ontario Job Bank so job seekers can find employment opportunities, and businesses can find the right workers with the right skills.
• Creating a new service delivery model that will integrate social assistance employment services into Employment Ontario to help the province’s most vulnerable, including people with disabilities, to break free from the poverty cycle.
• Introducing a new model to manage the employment service system more effectively to meet the needs of job seekers, businesses and communities.
• Selecting service system managers through a new, competitive process that’s open to any public, not-for-profit and private sector organization, as well as consolidated municipal service managers and district social services board service managers.
• Ensuring employment services are working more effectively with other government services, including social assistance, so when people find themselves facing barriers to employment, or in a precarious employment situation, they can get the help they need.

These changes to Ontario's employment services will happen over time, starting with three prototypes in fall 2019.

By providing job seekers and businesses with the best possible employment services, the government can help job seekers find and keep good jobs and help employers recruit the skilled workers they need to support a strong workforce.

Investing in experiential learning for the auto and related advanced manufacturing sectors

Technological disruption and global industry trends present both major challenges and opportunities for Ontario’s automotive sector. On February 14, 2019, the government introduced Driving Prosperity: The Future of Ontario's Automotive Sector. The plan sets out a 10-year vision for how industry, the research and education sector and all three levels of government can work together to strengthen the auto sector's competitiveness.

The ministry will contribute to the talent development component of the plan. In 2018-19, the ministry invested $5 million to create new internships and other experiential learning opportunities across the auto sector.

In the year ahead, the ministry will continue to contribute to skills development and strengthen the talent pipeline for the auto sector by:

• Investing an additional $14 million to create more internships and other experiential learning opportunities.
• Investing $3 million to launch a micro-credentials pilot to help unemployed Ontarians and at-risk workers gain the skills they need to succeed.
• Developing a talent roadmap and skills inventory to help identify current and future skills needs to support the sector.

Improving Ontario Job Bank

Ontario Job Bank is an online job site that connects job seekers with jobs and helps employers find new workers quickly. Job seekers can use the Job Bank to search for full-time or part-time employment anywhere in Ontario—or across Canada. Employers can use the site to advertise jobs for free to thousands of people and will be provided with a list of potential candidates matching the job requirements. Last year, Job Bank helped fill close to one hundred thousand jobs. The government is making it easier for people to find and use the Ontario Job Bank to help more job seekers and employers meet their employment needs. Ontario Job Bank is now available directly through employment pages on Ontario.ca. This makes it easier for clients to search and find jobs.

Strengthening labour market information resources

To better help job seekers and businesses, the government is providing improved, more user-friendly online labour market information on the government’s Ontario.ca website. The refreshed labour market web pages feature 500 job profiles to help students and job seekers explore their first or next career, and find out about relevant education, training and reskilling opportunities. The ministry will continue to update and enhance the website to improve the quality of labour market information for learners and job seekers, and provide critical data to employers, institutions, researchers and economic developers to help support effective workforce development and planning.

Postsecondary education

Postsecondary education is a critical part of preparing Ontario students for the future. The government is committed to bringing financial accountability and sustainability back to Ontario’s postsecondary education system to ensure colleges and universities are providing positive economic outcomes and the knowledge, skills and training students and people need for the jobs of the future.

Strategic Mandate Agreements

Strategic Mandate Agreements (SMAs) are bilateral agreements negotiated between the ministry and the province’s 45 publicly-assisted colleges and universities. For many years, only a small proportion of funding has been tied to performance (1.4% for universities and 1.2% for colleges) in Ontario’s postsecondary education system.

Once the current SMAs expire on March 31, 2020, the new agreements will focus on more outcomes‐based funding by tying 60% to performance by the 2024–25 academic year. This action will help restore accountability to Ontario’s postsecondary education system.

The overall number of metrics will also be reduced from 38 for colleges and 28 for universities to 10 for each sector. These 10 metrics align with the government’s priorities in skills and job outcomes, and economic and community impact. These changes will reduce the reporting burden for institutions while supporting sustainability through a focus on institutional strengths and differentiation.

Maximizing commercialization opportunities

Ontario’s postsecondary institutions conduct high‐quality research through campus accelerators and incubators, which contribute to today’s innovation‐based economy. However, more needs to be done to strengthen the province’s intellectual property position and maximize commercialization opportunities for economic growth.

The government will create an Expert Panel tasked with delivering an action plan for a provincial intellectual property framework and maximizing commercialization opportunities specifically related to the postsecondary education sector. This panel will potentially include representation from the postsecondary, industry, innovation, venture capital and investment, banking and finance sectors, as well as from medical research and intellectual property legal expertise.

Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)

The Ontario government spent $2.1 billion in grants and loans through OSAP to support about 450,000 students in 2018-19. A 2018 report from the Auditor General showed that overspending on OSAP in recent years did not result in proportionately higher postsecondary enrolment.

In January 2019, the government announced the steps it has taken to restore financial sustainability to OSAP so the program is efficient and cost-effective, and is protected for future generations. Changes to OSAP ensure it gets back to doing what it is supposed do – supporting the students who need it the most.

Starting in fall 2019 the government will:

• Target OSAP to those students who have demonstrated the greatest financial need.
• Make the program more cost-effective and sustainable for future generations by adjusting the calculation for student financial assistance to reflect the increase to minimum wage, restoring parental contribution rates back to 2017-18 levels and factoring in parental income for students who have been out of high school for six years or less.
• Update the computer allowance to reflect a one-time purchase, rather than an expense eligible for each year of study.
• Make it easier for students to get on their feet after school before they need to start repaying their student loans by maintaining the current $25,000 annual income threshold for the Repayment Assistance Plan.

Tuition fee framework

Students in Ontario currently pay among the highest tuition rates in Canada, with the average Ontario university domestic tuition close to $9,000 according to Statistics Canada, and the average 2018-19 college domestic tuition $3,400.

The government is implementing a new two-year Tuition Fee Framework for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years. For the 2019–20 academic year, the government is lowering domestic tuition by 10% across all funding-eligible programs to keep more money in the pockets of students and their families. The new tuition framework will also freeze domestic tuition fees for the 2020–21 school year.

On average, this tuition reduction means domestic students attending college will see their tuition lowered by approximately $340 and domestic students in university enrolled in an undergraduate arts and science degree with an average tuition of $6,600 will see it lowered by $660. Overall, this will result in $450 million in tuition relief for Ontario domestic students.

This new tuition fee framework makes college and university more affordable for students and their families and provides institutions with multi-year predictability so they can engage in effective operational planning to ensure quality is maintained in the postsecondary system while looking for efficiencies.

Student fees

Students pay fees in addition to tuition to cover a wide range of postsecondary expenses such as student handbooks, non-student related organizations or club fees - services and organizations the student may not use or support.

The ministry is increasing transparency and freedom of choice for student fees by introducing a plan where non-tuition student fees are clearly communicated and students get a choice about where their money is spent. Going forward, postsecondary institutions will be required to provide an online opt-out option for all non-essential, non-tuition fees.

Free speech

Colleges and universities should be places where students exchange ideas and opinions in an open and respectful debate. That is why as of January 1, 2019, the government now requires every Ontario publicly-assisted college and university to develop, post online, implement and comply with a free speech policy that meets a minimum standard prescribed by the government. This will ensure that all colleges and universities have a strong, clear and consistent free speech policy that applies to faculty, students, staff, management and guests. Colleges and universities must report annually on their progress to the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), starting September 2019. 

Making campuses safer

On March 19, 2019, the government released a summary report of the 2018 Student Voices on Sexual Violence Survey, which was voluntarily completed by 160,000 students across Ontario. The results of the report are helping to inform postsecondary institutions’ sexual violence response and prevention efforts to ensure Ontario’s postsecondary campuses are a safe place to learn.

The government is also supporting campus safety by doubling the 2018–19 investment in the Women's Campus Safety Grant to assist colleges and universities in supporting the prevention of sexual violence and requiring every publicly-assisted postsecondary institution in Ontario to have a task force devoted to tackling sexual violence on campus. Each task force will be required to report their findings to both the ministry and their respective Board of Governors.

Indigenous Institutes

Indigenous Institutes provide access to learners who might otherwise not participate in postsecondary education and training, particularly in northern and remote locations.

To support the recognition of Ontario’s nine Indigenous Institutes as part of the province’s publicly-assisted postsecondary education and training system, the ministry increased funding to the Institutes to $21 million in 2018–19.

Private career colleges

On April 2, 2019, the Legislature passed the Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act. The act will reduce regulatory burdens in 12 sectors, helping job creators thrive, create and keep good jobs. This legislation amends the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005, to cut red tape and reduce administrative burdens. The changes create registration requirements that make sense, align tuition fee collection with the federal government and reduce unnecessary regulatory notices. They also maintain important information for students and introduce modern and easy-to-use online services. The private career colleges’ sector will see annual savings of $460,000 in their business costs, including less paperwork. This will permit them to invest in quality programs, instructors and infrastructure to support a vocational training sector that provides the skilled workforce that employers need.

Government priority

Modernize the skilled trades and apprenticeship system.

Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities initiatives:

• Wind down the Ontario College of Trades.
• Develop a client-facing digital system.
• Introduce a new financial incentive program for employers to come together and train apprentices.
• Increase access to the skilled trades through a ministry-led marketing campaign.
• Promote awareness of and access to apprenticeship and skilled trades pathways for all students.
• Continue to provide pre-apprenticeship training.
• Introduce a new flexible framework to enable training and certification in a full trade or in a portable skill set.

Government priority

Transform and integrate Ontario’s employment services system.

Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities initiatives:

• Redesign Second Career and other skills training programs to ensure they are effectively helping job seekers get the skills they need to find work.
• Introduce a new service delivery model that will integrate social assistance employment services into Employment Ontario to help the province’s most vulnerable, including individuals on social assistance, to break free from the poverty cycle.
• Introduce a new model in three prototype areas to manage the employment service system more effectively to meet the needs of job seekers, businesses and communities.
• Ensure employment services are working more effectively with other government services, including social assistance.
• Continue to update and provide better access to career planning and job search resources like the labour market website and Job Bank.

Government priority

Make postsecondary education more affordable, cost-efficient and sustainable.

Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities initiatives:

• Focus new Strategic Mandate Agreements on outcomes-based funding.
• Create an action plan for a provincial intellectual property framework and maximize commercialization opportunities in postsecondary education sector.
• Refocus the Ontario Student Assistance Program to those who need it most.
• New tuition framework for colleges and universities.
• Student Choice Initiative for student fees.

Highlights of 2018-19 results

Agencies, Boards and Commissions (ABCs)

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO)

Assists the Minister to improve all aspects of postsecondary education, including improving the quality of, and access to, postsecondary education, and enhancing the accountability of postsecondary education institutions. The agency also:

• Recommends targets to be achieved and performance measures to be used to evaluate the postsecondary education sector
• Evaluates the postsecondary education sector,reports to the Minister and makes results public
• Conducts research on postsecondary education.
• Researches, evaluates and reports on free speech across the postsecondary sector.

2019-20 Expenditure Estimates: $4,100,000

2019-20 Revenue Estimates: n/a

2018-19 Expenditure Interim Actuals: $5,000,000

2018-19 Revenue Interim Actuals: n/a

2017-18 Expenditure Actuals: $5,145,498.63

2017-18 Revenue Actuals: n/a

Training Completion Assurance Fund Advisory Board (TCAF)

Provides advice to the Superintendent of Private Career Colleges (PCC) on the administration of TCAF, including financial administration of the fund; criteria for assessing financial viability of PCCs; general guidelines for responding to PCC closures; and responses to specific PCC closures.

TCAF is a Special Purpose Account (SPA), authorized by the Ministry of Finance within the Consolidated Revenue Fund (liability account) and represents money received or collected by Ontario for a special purpose.

2019-20 Expenditure Estimates: n/a

2019-20 Revenue Estimates: n/a

2018-19 Expenditure Interim Actuals: n/a

2018-19 Revenue Interim Actuals: n/a

2017-18 Expenditure Actuals: n/a

2017-18 Revenue Actuals: n/a

Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board (PEQAB)

Makes recommendations to the Minister on applications for the Minister’s consent to offer degree programs and/or use the term “university” from new and existing private Ontario degree-granting institutions, out-of-province institutions, Ontario colleges and all others not authorized to award degrees by an Ontario statute.

2019-20 Expenditure Estimates: $975,300

2019-20 Revenue Estimates: $120,000

2018-19 Expenditure Interim Actuals: $1,057,000

2018-19 Revenue Interim Actuals: $55,000

2017-18 Expenditure Actuals: $968,000

2017-18 Revenue Actuals: $105,000

Office of the Fairness Commissioner (OFC)

(Oversight transferred to TCU, June 2018)

The Fairness Commissioner’s mandate is to help ensure that registration practices of regulated professions and compulsory trades are transparent, objective, impartial, and fair, as required by Fair Access to Regulated Professions and Compulsory Trades Act, 2006, and the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991.

2019-20 Expenditure Estimates: $1,195,000

2019-20 Revenue Estimates: n/a

2018-19 Expenditure Interim Actuals: $1,299,116.86

2018-19 Revenue Interim Actuals: n/a

2017-18 Expenditure Actuals: $1,263,921.80

2017-18 Revenue Actuals: n/a

College of Trades Appointments Council and Classification Roster (COTACCR)

(Oversight transferred to TCU, June 2018)

The COTACCR has two branches:

• The Appointments Council branch appoints members to the Ontario College of Trades’ governing structure, including the Board of Governors, divisional boards and trade boards and the roster of adjudicators.
• The Classification Roster branch establishes panels to make determinations on the classification of trades in Ontario as either voluntary or compulsory.

In November 2018, the Ontario government announced its intention to‎ wind-down the Ontario College of Trades. As part of the wind-down process, activities related to the College of Trades Appointments Council and Classification Roster (COTACCR) have ceased. 

2019-20 Expenditure Estimates: n/a
The COTACCR is expected to be dissovled in 2019–20.

2019-20 Revenue Estimates: n/a

2018-19 Expenditure Interim Actuals: $24,500

2018-19 Revenue Interim Actuals: n/a

2017-18 Expenditure Actuals: $24,778.63

2017-18 Revenue Actuals: n/a

Ministry organization chart

• Minister – Merrilee Fullerton
  • Parliamentary Assistant – David Piccini
  • Deputy Minister – George Zegarac
    • Executive Assistant – Sarah Robb
    • Communications Branch – Paola Gemmiti (Acting)
    • Executive Lead – Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister on Strategic Mandate Agreements - Marny Scully
    • Assistant Deputy Minister, Workforce Policy and Innovation Division – Erin McGinn
      • Executive Assistant – Katherine Valiquette (Acting)
      • Parnerships and Implementation– David Bartucci
      • Information Management and Strategy – Kristie Pratt
      • Strategic Workforce Policy and Programs – Suzanne Skinner (Acting)
      • Adult Education, Lifelong Learning and Essential Skills – Monica Neizert (Acting)
    • Assistant Deputy Minister, Employment and Training Division – David Carter-Whitney
      • Executive Assistant – Kelly Longley (Acting)
      • Finance, Analysis and Systems Support Branch – Kirsten Cutler (Acting)
      • Program Delivery Support Branch – Jacqueline Cureton
      • Organizational and Business Excellence Branch – John Michel (Acting)
      • Apprenticeship – Sarah McQuarrie (Acting)
      • Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Transition Project – Jan Hughes (Acting)
      • Executive Director, Regional Operations – Vacant
      • Western Region Branch – Daniel Kay(Acting)
      • Central Region Branch – Tariq Ismati (Acting)
      • Eastern Region Branch – Jennifer Barton
      • Northern Region Branch – Andrew Irvine
    • Assistant Deputy Minister, Advanced Education Learner Supports Division – Kelly Burke
      • Executive Assistant – Olga Lenskaia(Acting)
      • Private Career Colleges Branch – Carol Strachan
      • Student Financial Assistance Branch – Maria Mellas
      • Digital Learning Policy – Anna Boyden
    • Assistant Deputy Minister, Postsecondary Education Division – Nancy Mudrinic
      • Executive Assistant – Krystyna Cap (Acting)
      • Postsecondary Education Policy – Paddy Buckley
      • Postsecondary Accountability Branch – Ivonne Mellozzi (Acting)
      • Indigenous Education Branch – Barry McCartan (Acting)
      • Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board Secretariat – James Brown
      • Postsecondary Finance and Information Management Branch – Kelly Shields
      • Postsecondary Education Financial Information System Project – Barry McCartan
    • Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Management and Services Division – Warren McCay (Acting)
      Reports to the deputy ministers of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
      • Executive Assistant – Kate Joakim (Acting)
      • Ontario Internal Audit Education Audit Service Team – Jayashree Venkatesh (Acting)
      • Corporate Finance and Services Branch – Sandy Yee
      • Strategic Human Resources Branch – Nadine Ramdial (Acting)
      • Corporate Coordination Branch – Sarah Truscott
      • Legal Services Branch – Shannon Chace
    • Assistant Deputy Minister, French Language Teaching, Learning and Achievement Division – Denys Giguère
      Reports to the deputy ministers of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
      • Executive Assistant – Shabbirr Auhammud (Acting)
      • French-Language Education, Policies and Programs Branch – Luc Davet
      • French-Language Teaching and Learning – Linda Lacroix
      • Training, Colleges and Universities French-Language Priorities – Gilles Fortin
    • Chief Information Officer / Assistant Deputy Minister, Community Services I & IT Cluster – Soussan Tabari
      Reports to the deputy ministers of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
      • Executive Assistant – Marie Dearlove
      • Strategic Planning and Business Relationship Management Branch – Aleli Gulak (Acting)
      • Case and Grant Management Solutions Branch – Sanaul Haque
      • Data Collection and Decision Support Solution Branch – Carm Scarfo
      • iACCESS Solutions Branch – Sanjay Madan
  • Agencies, Boards, and Commissions:
    • Boards of Governors of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology
    • College of Trades Appointments Council and Classification Roster (COTACCR)
    • Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario
    • Office of the Fairness Commissioner (OFC)
    • Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board
    • Training Completion Assurance Fund Advisory Board (TCAF)

Detailed financial information

Table 2: Total Operating and Capital Summary by Vote

Ministry programs (operating and capital expense) – voted

Postsecondary education, 83.9%
Employment Ontario, 15.9%
Ministry administration, 0.2%

Increase in total ministry expense between 2016-17 and 2018-19 primarily due to Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) to support higher than forecasted applications and awards and time-limited federal investments in postsecondary education capital projects. The decrease in total ministry expense in 2019-20 is mainly due to OSAP reform, cancellation of 2018 Budget initiatives and the wind-down of the time-limited federal investments in postsecondary education capital projects.

*Interim actuals reflect the numbers presented in the 2019 Ontario Budget

** Ontario Public Service Full-Time Equivalent positions

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