Stephen Harper made history this month as he was the first sitting Prime Minister to ever make an appearance at Niagara college. He was there to support the governments new budget program called the Knowledge Infrastructure program. This budget plans to strengthen infrastructures of colleges and universities across Canada, giving students the resources they need to suceed. Niagara College is one of the many post secondary schools that is currently benefiting from the 1.5 billion governmentally run budget. The expansion of the post secondary schools will allow students to have more academic opportunities within their school . I believe that this idea is a great way to improve the quality of higher learning.
The infrastructure plan for Niagara college is to add a new addition to the school called the Niagara College Applied Health Institute. The expansion of the school is said to bring in around 1,000 new students to the college next year. This project hopes to bring economic benefits to the city of Welland as they have been hit the most with the economic recession.
This new addition is providing space for high-demand programs such as Pratical Nursing, Personal support worker, and Dental Health programs. The economic impact expansion of the school to make room for these programs is said to create 1,200 jobs in the Niagara region. By adding the new addition the governemnt is then bringing in more jobs to the city which will help the Niagara region through this reccession. I believe that the Knowledge Infrastructure Budget that the government has implemented is a positive step forward. It will give students more resources and tools to work with, and also it will create more jobs that will not only benefit the region but the students who will be going into the workforce as well.
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Brock Post
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You're right when you say that the new budget plans will give students more options and provide them with a better opportunity to succeed. I think that our government should be an active participant in post-secondary education matters, and should continue to aid our institutions (to the best of their abilities) with more funding. Inevitably, the quality of a students education will deliberatly show once the student has entered into the workforce.
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