The Government of Canada is helping official-language minority communities access quality education in their own language, from early childhood to the post-secondary level.
Today, the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, announced funding of $1.2 million over two years to Université Sainte-Anne, Nova Scotia's only Francophone university, to modernize its student information system. In addition, the Province of Nova Scotia is providing $104,573 over two years to this project. Minister Petitpas Taylor was joined by the Honourable Colton LeBlanc, Nova Scotia Minister of Acadian Affairs and Francophonie.
The funding will support the stabilization and capacity building of Université Sainte-Anne and help it migrate to a new information system that will allow it to optimize the management of student records. This new system will also increase and optimize communication between admissions staff and students interested in pursuing post-secondary education at Université Sainte-Anne.
The project is funded under the Canada-Nova Scotia Agreement on Minority-Language Education and Second-Language Instruction from 2020-2021 to 2022-2023.
