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Postsecondary Education Division
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The Postsecondary Education Division was established in 1996. It carried out similar functions to the Postsecondary Institutions Division which had been dissolved in 1993 during a reorganization of the Ministry of Education and Training.
The division was originally established with three branches: The Student Support Branch, the Colleges Branch and the Universities Branch. It retained this structure of three branches when it became part of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities in 1999.
By 2006 the Private Institutions Branch and Transformation and Integration Branch had been added.
Between 2006 and 2008 the division was reorganized. It then consisted of the Postsecondary Accountability Branch and the Postsecondary Finance and Information Management Branch. The Colleges and Universities branches were split functionally between policy advice (which moved to the Postsecondary Accountability Branch) and financing (which moved to the Finance and Information Management Branch). The Student Support Branch was unaffected.
By 2012 the Student Support Branch had been renamed the Student Financial Assistance Branch, retaining the same functions. A Private Career Colleges Branch had also been added.
In 2017 the Division briefly was moved to the short-lived Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development and an OSAP Transformation Branch was added. As part of a major reorganizaton in 2018, an Indigenous Education Branch and a Postsecondary Quality Assessment Branch were added (both from the previous Strategic Policy and Programs Division) and the Private Career Colleges Branch and the Student Financial Assistance Branch were moved to the Advanced Education Learner Supports Division.
With a change of government in 2018, the Division returned to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. A new Postsecondary Education Policy Branch was added and the OSAP Transformation Branch was demoted to a Unit and moved to the Advanced Education Learner Supports Division.
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The Postsecondary Education Division is responsible for building effective working relationships between the Ministry and postsecondary institutions.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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KWIC Indexes 1995-2006
INFO-GO
Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development organization chart, 2017.
Government telephone directories 2008-2017.
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Birrell, Levi