Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services
Education
- Department
- Department of Indigenous Services
- Program code
- BXM09 (INDSC)
- Core responsibility
- Health and Social Services
- In Departmental Plans
- 2019-20 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Education Program contributes to the Health and Social Services Core Responsibility by supporting inclusive and quality education for Indigenous students. The Program has two components: Elementary and Secondary Education and Post-Secondary Education.
The program supports elementary and secondary education for First Nations students, schools, and communities. The Government of Canada is committed to working in partnership with First Nations, on a nation-to-nation basis, to help First Nations and First Nations-mandated organizations establish education systems over which First Nations will exercise control. These systems are intended to provide for the delivery of education services to First Nations students in a manner that respects First Nations’ methods of teaching and learning. This includes support for complementary, culturally-appropriate, early childhood education on reserve.
The program also provides distinctions-based, post-secondary education funding to support First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation students. Three distinctions-based post-secondary education strategies have been developed to support Indigenous post-secondary education: the First Nations Post-Secondary Education Strategy, the Inuit Post-Secondary Education Strategy, and the Métis Nation Post-Secondary Education Strategy. These post-secondary education strategies aim to help increase access to and enable success in post-secondary education for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation students.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Earlier program (name match, high confidence) | 2018-19 – 2020-21 | $2.37B |
| Education Facilities | Earlier program (name match, medium confidence) | 2018-19 – 2020-21 | $456M |
| Education | This program | 2019-20 – 2024-25 | $10.5B |
| Post-Secondary Education | Later program (name match, low confidence) | 2023-24 – 2028-29 | $1.19B |
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Appears to combine earlier programs: Education; Education Facilities | Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference) |
| 2023-24 | Appears to be replaced by Post-Secondary Education | Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | — | 2020 | 21,183 Data for 2019-20 is based on the 2018-19 fiscal year. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | 26,014 – 28,445 | 2021 | 11,135 This is an interim partial result as only 42.5% of the Annual Register of Post-Secondary Education Students Report due or submitted have been moved to the Accepted (Final) state. Only data in the Accepted (Final) state have been used for this indicator. The data also include students funded to attend a program as part of the University and College Entrance Preparation Program (UCEPP). An interim… | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | $1.74B | $2.39B |
| 2020-21 | $2.01B | $2.44B |
| 2021-22 | $2.11B | $2.65B |
| 2022-23 | $2.85B | $3.02B |
| 2023-24 | $2.82B* | — |
| 2024-25 | $2.76B* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 315 | 310 |
| 2020-21 | 306 | 314 |
| 2021-22 | 339 | 344 |
| 2022-23 | 356 | 336 |
| 2023-24 | 356* | — |
| 2024-25 | 356* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 plan | $1,744,443,531 | $1,825,614,935 | $1,906,854,004 | |||
| 2020-21 plan | $2,012,535,094 | $2,117,271,412 | $2,222,734,160 | |||
| 2021-22 plan | $2,112,754,123 | $2,217,995,490 | $2,264,802,011 | |||
| 2022-23 plan | $2,851,947,033 | $2,817,922,466 | $2,757,202,556 | |||
| Actual | $2,388,219,884 | $2,442,938,717 | $2,653,692,988 | $3,015,497,863 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
