Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services

Post-Secondary Education

Department

Department of Indigenous Services

Program code

BYP12 (INDSC)

Core responsibility

Indigenous Well-Being and Self-Determination

In Departmental Plans

2023-24 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Post-Secondary Education programming provides funding to support eligible First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation students through three distinctions-based post-secondary education strategies.

These strategies aim to help close the education attainment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians by increasing access to and enabling success in post-secondary education for eligible students.

The First Nations Post-Secondary Education Strategy consists of five components: including the Post-Secondary Student Support Program (PSSSP), the University and College Entrance Preparation Program (UCEPP), the Post-Secondary Partnerships Program (PSPP), the First Nations Adult Secondary Education (FNASE), and the Engagement Toward Regional Post-Secondary Education Models. The Strategy supports First Nations in providing eligible students with funding to access education opportunities at the post-secondary level, and by supporting First Nations post-secondary education institutions and First Nations-directed community-based programming.

The Inuit and Métis Nation Post-Secondary Education Strategies allocate funds to Inuit and Métis Nation recipients who then provide funding for academic and living expenses to Inuit and Métis Nation students pursuing post-secondary education. These strategies also provide additional non-academic programs and service supports for post-secondary students, community engagement and governance and national coordination.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2023-24. 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).

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

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

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.