"The physiotherapist who helped Foday Saidykhan recover from a basketball injury also helped inspire the Toronto teen's dreams for the future. A summer mentorship program offering the high-schooler a hands-on introduction to a variety of health-care careers and professionals happy to discuss their own schooling further cemented his growing interest in movement and anatomy. With a subsequent goal set studying kinesiology at Western University in London, Ont. Saidykhan got busy: toiling for good grades in prerequisite classes, working as a volunteer and crafting scholarship essays."
"The Grade 12 student and his mother, a single parent juggling financial challenges since the COVID-19 pandemic, were counting on the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) after its online estimator predicted the 17-year-old would receive a "healthy grant." Yet the dream now feels in jeopardy amid new OSAP changes Ontario unveiled last week. This coming fall in Ontario, the grant portion of student aid packages will max out at 25 per cent, while the remaining 75 per cent will be a loan."
A physiotherapist and a summer mentorship inspired a Toronto Grade 12 student's interest in movement and anatomy and led him to pursue kinesiology at Western University. The student worked on grades, volunteer experience and scholarship essays while his single mother, affected financially by the COVID-19 pandemic, relied on an OSAP estimator that predicted a substantial grant. Ontario announced changes that will limit grant portions of student aid to 25 per cent and convert the remaining 75 per cent to loans, replacing prior models with much larger grant shares and raising affordability concerns alongside other funding and tuition policy shifts.
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