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The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Excerpt: "The first measure will increase the minimum enrolment threshold for regulated child care centres participating in the Operating Grant Program. The threshold for those centres to receive full grant funding will increase from 70 per cent enrolment to 90 per cent enrolment. This change will come into effect on April 1, 2024. Regional staff from the Department of Education will work with all child care centers to maximize capacity and minimize operational impact. Rural and remote services will not be financially impacted by the increase in enrolment threshold."

Excerpt: "The newly approved $10-a-day spaces are offered at 25 child care centres throughout B.C., including Houston, Squamish, Surrey and Vancouver. For this intake, government’s focus was to prioritize new $10-a-day facilities in communities that do not yet have access to the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program or have a low number of $10-a-day spaces compared to the region’s population density. In addition to the $10-a-day spaces, provincial and federal investments are helping approximately 128,000 families with the cost of child care at centres that are not part of the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program through child care fee reductions of up to $900 per month per child. When combined with the Affordable Child Care Benefit, many families are paying $10 a day or less for child care, including those not participating in the $10 a Day program."

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Master of Arts (MA) in Child Study and Education
Expected year of graduation: 2025

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Professor Kang Lee presents "Effective methods to curb academic cheating on exams: recent advances" at a January 18 Focus on research event hosted by the Office of the Associate Dean, Research, International & Innovation. (Photo courtesy of Kang Lee).

A refection on the first semester of a new student in OISE's Master of Education in Adult Education & Community Development (AECD).

The Centre for Black Students in Education opened its doors in January 2023, with the official unveiling taking place in the summer of 2023.