Canadian Budget Supports Need-Based Grants

Canadian students, at long last, will get a federal need-based grant program next year. A new $350-million program, included in the Conservative minority government's latest budget, will replace Canada's Millennium Scholarships program, which ends in 2009.

On the whole, however, the budget left higher-education officials with mixed feelings. While it includes money for some new programs, existing needs — like more core funds for universities and colleges — were

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