Provides financial assistance to students who are attending community or private colleges, universities and technical institutes. Help is offered through such programs as Student Loans, Study Grants, Access Grants and Bursaries. For more help, call 1-709-729-5849, 1-888-657-0800 or email studentaid@gov.nl.ca.
Helps persons with student loans who are unable to continue repayment due to low income. For more help, call the telephone numbers below.
If you attended a public institution:
1-888-815-4514
If you attended a private institution:
1-866-587-7452
The provincial part of a student loan may be changed to a grant. This grant does not have to be paid back if certain conditions are met. The Student Financial Services automatically determines who is eligible for this grant. There is no application process. For more help call 1-709-729-5849, 1-888-657-0800 or email studentaid@gov.nl.ca.
For more information on provincial programs and services visit www.gov.nl.ca Click on Departments/Agencies and then click on the department responsible for the program you are looking for.
Provides help to persons who have defaulted on their student loans or are unable to meet the loan repayment conditions. For more information, call (709) 729-6465 (St. John's area) or 1-877-520-8800.
ABE is a provincial program for adult learners. It is made up of three levels:
ABE is offered through:
For more help, call one of the telephone numbers below.
ABE Level I: (709) 729-7668
ABE Levels II and III: (709) 729-6860
Scholarships for ABE students are available at the College of the North Atlantic. For more help, call 1-888-982-2268,
email info@cna.nl.ca or visit
www.cna.nl.ca .
The GED is a way for adult learners to earn a high school diploma. A person can take a GED test if they are:
For more help, call (709) 729-7919.
Available to graduates of Adult Basic Education (ABE), General Educational Development (GED) or the Comprehensive Arts and Science College Transition program. Students must have completed these programs since September 2005 and be enrolled in their first year of a full-time undergraduate program of 8 months or longer. For more help, call (709) 729-1738.
Memorial University offers many scholarships, bursaries and grants to students. For more help, please call (709) 737-3956
or visit
www.mun.ca/scholarships/home/
There are public libraries throughout the province that lend books. Libraries also provide free public access to the internet. A list of libraries is in the yellow pages of the telephone book under "Libraries - Public".
Did you know free internet services are available at your local library?
For more information on provincial programs and services visit www.gov.nl.ca Click on Departments/Agencies and then click on the department responsible for the program you are looking for.
Available to persons with permanent disabilities who are having trouble repaying student loans. For more help, 1-709-729-5849, 1-888-657-0800 or email studentaid@gov.nl.ca.