Ottawa, Manitoba tab $30M for child care, education
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The provincial and federal governments have announced plans to spend more than $30 million on training early childhood educators to staff expanded child care spaces in Manitoba.
The two levels have committed to the province having 23,000, $10-a-day regulated child care spaces by 2026, as part of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system announced in 2021.
Five public post-secondary institutions will receive funding to expand training for child care professionals, following an invitation from the province to submit expressions of interest in March, a government news release said Thursday.
The funding will add an estimated 998 seats in the province over a three-year period and will support nearly 2,000 total new student admissions.
The five institutions receiving funding are:
— Assiniboine Community College: $11.4 million;
— Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology: $1.6 million;
— Red River College Polytechnic: $2.8 million;
— University College of the North: $5.5 million;
— Saint-Boniface University: $3.4 million.
Saint-Boniface will be redeveloping an advanced diploma to provide francophone-centred ECE III training beginning in September 2024, and will be adding 15 seats to its French-language ECE diploma workplace program.