Expenditure Estimates for the Ministry of Colleges and Universities (2024-25)
The 2024-2025 Expenditure Estimates set out details of the operating and capital spending requirements of the Ministry of Colleges and Universities for the fiscal year commencing April 1, 2024.
Summary
The Ministry of Colleges and Universities is responsible for making sure that 澳门永利’s postsecondary education system prepares students and job seekers with the high-quality education, skills and opportunities needed to get good jobs, providing 澳门永利’s businesses with the skilled workforce and talent they need to thrive and prosper. The ministry also supports research and innovation to help the province compete and thrive in the global economy.
Ministry program summary
| Vote | Program | Estimates |
Estimates |
Difference |
Actual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Operating expense |
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| 3001 | Ministry Administration Program | 15,682,300 | 15,012,000 | 670,300 | 15,029,617 |
| 3002 | Postsecondary Education Program | 6,856,795,600 | 6,631,704,000 | 225,091,600 | 6,198,266,236 |
| 3005 | Research Program | 176,396,600 | 206,897,100 | (30,500,500) | 176,914,394 |
| Total operating expense to be voted | 7,048,874,500 | 6,853,613,100 | 195,261,400 | 6,390,210,247 | |
| Statutory appropriations | 56,456,014 | 56,506,014 | (50,000) | 55,167,954 | |
| Ministry total operating expense | 7,105,330,514 | 6,910,119,114 | 195,211,400 | 6,445,378,201 | |
| Consolidation adjustment - Colleges | 4,470,275,600 | 4,627,116,400 | (156,840,800) | 4,778,070,898 | |
| Operating expense adjustment - Student Assistance Interest Expense Reclassification | (48,979,900) | (48,979,900) | - | (22,045,704) | |
| Consolidation adjustment - Children’s Aid Societies | (1,600,000) | (1,050,000) | (550,000) | - | |
| Consolidation adjustment - Hospitals | (5,651,500) | (10,591,200) | 4,939,700 | (8,542,435) | |
| Consolidation adjustment - General Real Estate Portfolio | (683,000) | (676,800) | (6,200) | (797,997) | |
| Total including consolidation & other adjustments | 11,518,691,714 | 11,475,937,614 | 42,754,100 | 11,192,062,963 | |
Operating assets |
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| 3002 | Postsecondary Education Program | 482,400,000 | 331,000,000 | 151,400,000 | 277,030,451 |
| Total operating assets to be voted | 482,400,000 | 331,000,000 | 151,400,000 | 277,030,451 | |
| Statutory appropriations | - | - | - | 35,000,000 | |
| Ministry total operating assets | 482,400,000 | 331,000,000 | 151,400,000 | 312,030,451 | |
Capital expense |
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| 3002 | Postsecondary Education Program | 245,980,900 | 204,847,700 | 41,133,200 | 219,609,415 |
| 3005 | Research Program | 105,168,800 | 110,642,000 | (5,473,200) | 60,734,909 |
| Total capital expense to be voted | 351,149,700 | 315,489,700 | 35,660,000 | 280,344,324 | |
| Statutory appropriations | 959,600 | 870,900 | 88,700 | 5,778,605 | |
| Ministry total capital expense | 352,109,300 | 316,360,600 | 35,748,700 | 286,122,929 | |
| Consolidation adjustment - Colleges | 331,290,800 | 342,315,900 | (11,025,100) | 290,596,981 | |
| Consolidation adjustment - Hospitals | (13,027,800) | (19,766,200) | 6,738,400 | (4,481,629) | |
| Total including consolidation & other adjustments | 670,372,300 | 638,910,300 | 31,462,000 | 572,238,281 | |
Capital assets |
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| 3002 | Postsecondary Education Program | 3,501,000 | 1,000 | 3,500,000 | - |
| Total capital assets to be voted | 3,501,000 | 1,000 | 3,500,000 | - | |
| Ministry total capital assets | 3,501,000 | 1,000 | 3,500,000 | - | |
| Ministry total operating and capital including consolidation and other adjustments (not including assets) | 12,189,064,014 | 12,114,847,914 | 74,216,100 | 11,764,301,244 | |
Reconciliation to previously published data
| Operating expense | Estimates |
Actual |
|---|---|---|
| Total operating expense previously published |
6,910,119,114 | 6,432,863,201 |
| Government reorganization | ||
Transfer of functions from other Ministries |
- | 12,515,000 |
| Restated total operating expense | 6,910,119,114 | 6,445,378,201 |
Ministry Administration Program - vote 3001
The Ministry Administration Program provides overall direction required to enable the Ministry of Colleges and Universities to meet its objectives; and delivers administrative and support services for the operational programs of the ministry.
Vote summary
| Item | Item | Estimates |
Estimates |
Difference |
Actual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Operating expense |
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| 1 | Ministry administration | 15,682,300 | 15,012,000 | 670,300 | 15,029,617 |
| Total operating expense to be voted | 15,682,300 | 15,012,000 | 670,300 | 15,029,617 | |
| S | Minister's salary, the Executive Council Act | 47,841 | 47,841 | - | 49,301 |
| S | Parliamentary assistant's salary, the Executive Council Act | 16,173 | 16,173 | - | 16,667 |
| S | Bad debt expenses for Administrative Costs, the Financial Administration Act | 1,000 | 1,000 | - | - |
| Total statutory appropriations | 65,014 | 65,014 | - | 65,968 | |
| Total operating expense | 15,747,314 | 15,077,014 | 670,300 | 15,095,585 | |
Standard account by item and sub-items
| Vote- item number |
Standard account by item and sub-items | Amount $ | Amount $ |
|---|---|---|---|
Operating expense |
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| 3001-1 | Ministry administration | ||
Salaries and wages |
8,756,800 | ||
Employee benefits |
1,083,200 | ||
Transportation and communication |
175,200 | ||
Services |
5,595,600 | ||
Supplies and equipment |
71,500 | ||
| Total operating expense to be voted | 15,682,300 | ||
| Sub-items: | |||
| Main office | |||
Salaries and wages |
2,907,300 | ||
Employee benefits |
477,700 | ||
Transportation and communication |
175,200 | ||
Services |
324,700 | ||
Supplies and equipment |
71,500 | 3,956,400 | |
| Financial and administrative services | |||
Salaries and wages |
2,133,300 | ||
Employee benefits |
194,800 | ||
Services |
2,892,000 | 5,220,100 | |
| Human resources | |||
Salaries and wages |
957,100 | ||
Employee benefits |
127,700 | ||
Services |
200,200 | 1,285,000 | |
| Communications services | |||
Salaries and wages |
2,759,100 | ||
Employee benefits |
283,000 | ||
Services |
495,500 | 3,537,600 | |
| Legal services | |||
Services |
1,530,200 | 1,530,200 | |
| Information systems | |||
Services |
153,000 | 153,000 | |
| Total operating expense to be voted | 15,682,300 | ||
| Statutory appropriations | |||
| Statutory | Minister's salary, the Executive Council Act |
47,841 | |
| Statutory | Parliamentary Assistant's Salary, the Executive Council Act |
16,173 | |
| Statutory appropriations | |||
Other transactions |
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| Statutory | Bad debt expenses for Administrative Costs, the Financial Administration Act |
1,000 | |
| Total operating expense for Ministry Administration Program | 15,747,314 | ||
Postsecondary Education Program - vote 3002
The Postsecondary Education (PSE) program is responsible for supporting institutions and students respectively, to create an innovative, accessible, financially sustainable and responsive PSE system in 澳门永利. The PSE program develops and implements strategic and operational policies, and provides financial support for postsecondary education institutions and students in 澳门永利. The PSE program works in support of the government's social and economic policy objectives with the goal of providing opportunities for high quality, innovative, responsive and accessible postsecondary education. The PSE program also supports Ontarians who are seeking access to the postsecondary education system by providing financial and regulatory support, as well as modern delivery channels, enabled by technology.
Key programs and activities include: developing policy, legislative and funding frameworks; administrating transfer payments to postsecondary institutions; managing financial and governance relationships with postsecondary institutions, agencies and transfer payment organizations; managing accountability mechanisms, such as bilateral Strategic Mandate Agreements which include implementation of the performance-based funding model; providing supports for Indigenous and Francophone learners; regulating public colleges in accordance with applicable statutes; providing quality assurance to public colleges as well as out of province and private postsecondary institutions that are seeking to offer degrees in the province; and developing vocational learning outcomes for non-degree postsecondary programs.
Through the PSE program, the ministry delivers the 澳门永利 Student Assistance Program (OSAP), an integrated needs-based financial aid program with the federal government. OSAP provides financial assistance, in the form of grants and loans, to qualified students in postsecondary studies. In addition, the ministry provides bursaries, scholarships, aid and incentive programs including the 澳门永利 Learn and Stay Grant to postsecondary students.
Through the Office of the Superintendent of Career Colleges, the ministry regulates career colleges, ensuring student protection and program quality and administers the International Student Program which allows institutions in 澳门永利 to accept international students.
The PSE program also includes oversight of the 澳门永利 agency Intellectual Property 澳门永利 (IPON) and implementation of other related Intellectual Property (IP) initiatives to support the postsecondary education sector and broader innovation ecosystem achieve economic opportunity through an enhanced focus on the generation, protection and management of IP.
Vote summary
| Item number | Item | Estimates |
Estimates |
Difference |
Actual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Operating expense |
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| 1 | Colleges, universities and student support | 6,856,795,600 | 6,631,704,000 | 225,091,600 | 6,198,266,236 |
| Total operating expense to be voted | 6,856,795,600 | 6,631,704,000 | 225,091,600 | 6,198,266,236 | |
| S | Bad debt expenses for Defaulted Student Loans, the Financial Administration Act | 54,540,000 | 54,540,000 | - | 52,892,130 |
| S | Bad debt expenses for Colleges and Universities, the Financial Administration Act | 1,350,000 | 1,400,000 | (50,000) | 1,400,000 |
| S | Training Completion Assurance Fund, the 澳门永利 Career Colleges Act | 1,000 | 1,000 | - | 309,856 |
| S | Bad debt expenses for Career Colleges, the Financial Administration Act | 500,000 | 500,000 | - | 500,000 |
| Total statutory appropriations | 56,391,000 | 56,441,000 | (50,000) | 55,101,986 | |
| Total operating expense | 6,913,186,600 | 6,688,145,000 | 225,041,600 | 6,253,368,222 | |
Operating assets |
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| 4 | Colleges, universities and student support | 482,400,000 | 331,000,000 | 151,400,000 | 277,030,451 |
| Total operating assets to be voted | 482,400,000 | 331,000,000 | 151,400,000 | 277,030,451 | |
| S | Colleges and Universities Support - Loans, the Financial Administration Act | - | - | - | 35,000,000 |
| Total statutory appropriations | - | - | - | 35,000,000 | |
| Total operating assets | 482,400,000 | 331,000,000 | 151,400,000 | 312,030,451 | |
Capital expense |
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| 3 | Support for Postsecondary Education | 245,980,900 | 204,847,700 | 41,133,200 | 219,609,415 |
| Total capital expense to be voted | 245,980,900 | 204,847,700 | 41,133,200 | 219,609,415 | |
| S | Amortization, the Financial Administration Act | 959,600 | 870,900 | 88,700 | 5,778,605 |
| Total statutory appropriations | 959,600 | 870,900 | 88,700 | 5,778,605 | |
| Total capital expense | 246,940,500 | 205,718,600 | 41,221,900 | 225,388,020 | |
Capital assets |
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| 6 | Colleges, universities and student support | 3,501,000 | 1,000 | 3,500,000 | - |
| Total capital assets to be voted | 3,501,000 | 1,000 | 3,500,000 | - | |
| Total capital assets | 3,501,000 | 1,000 | 3,500,000 | - | |
Standard account by item and sub-items
| Vote- item number |
Standard account by item and sub-items | Amount $ | Amount $ |
|---|---|---|---|
Operating expense |
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| 3002-1 | Colleges, universities and student support | ||
Salaries and wages |
26,546,300 | ||
Employee benefits |
3,828,500 | ||
Transportation and communication |
499,300 | ||
Services |
25,241,600 | ||
Supplies and equipment |
1,377,500 | ||
Transfer payments |
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Grants for Indigenous Institute operating costs |
31,202,800 | ||
Intellectual Property 澳门永利 |
13,933,600 | ||
Grants for College Operating Costs |
1,514,049,500 | ||
Grants for University Operating Costs |
3,855,705,000 | ||
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada |
748,200 | ||
Postsecondary Transformation |
13,600,000 | ||
Student Financial Assistance Programs |
1,370,264,300 | 6,799,503,400 | |
| Subtotal | 6,856,996,600 | ||
| Less: recoveries | 201,000 | ||
| Total operating expense to be voted | 6,856,795,600 | ||
| Statutory appropriations | |||
Other transactions |
|||
| Statutory | Bad debt expenses for Defaulted Student Loans, the Financial Administration Act |
54,540,000 | |
Other transactions |
|||
| Statutory | Bad debt expenses for Colleges and Universities, the Financial Administration Act |
1,350,000 | |
| Statutory appropriations | |||
Other transactions |
|||
| Statutory | Training Completion Assurance Fund, the 澳门永利 Career Colleges Act |
1,000 | |
| Statutory appropriations | |||
Other transactions |
|||
| Statutory | Bad debt expenses for Career Colleges, the Financial Administration Act |
500,000 | |
| Total operating expense for Postsecondary Education Program | 6,913,186,600 | ||
Operating assets |
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| 3002-4 | Colleges, universities and student support | ||
Loans and investments |
|||
Student loans |
481,900,000 | ||
Defaulted Student Loans |
500,000 | 482,400,000 | |
| Total operating assets to be voted | 482,400,000 | ||
| Total operating assets for Postsecondary Education Program | 482,400,000 | ||
Capital expense |
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| 3002-3 | Support for Postsecondary Education | ||
Transfer payments |
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Capital grants - Indigenous Institutes |
2,000,000 | ||
Capital grants - Colleges |
119,957,700 | ||
Capital grants - Universities |
124,022,200 | 245,979,900 | |
Other transactions |
1,000 | ||
| Total capital expense to be voted | 245,980,900 | ||
| Statutory appropriations | |||
Other transactions |
|||
| Statutory | Amortization, the Financial Administration Act |
959,600 | |
| Total capital expense for Postsecondary Education Program | 246,940,500 | ||
Capital assets |
|||
| 3002-6 | Colleges, Universities and Student support | ||
Business application software - asset costs |
3,501,000 | ||
| Total capital assets to be voted | 3,501,000 | ||
| Total capital assets for Postsecondary Education Program | 3,501,000 | ||
Research Program - vote 3005
The Research Program supports a strong research and innovation ecosystem in 澳门永利 by: developing and administering the ministry's suite of research programs that invest in operations, infrastructure and research talent to support world-class research and researchers working in publicly-funded institutions across 澳门永利; leveraging federal funding; advancing translational and focused research in specific areas; supporting the development of talent; and supporting global research and development collaborations via Memoranda of Understanding with other jurisdictions.
Vote summary
| Item number | Item | Estimates |
Estimates |
Difference |
Actual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Operating expense |
|||||
| 1 | Research support operating expense | 176,396,600 | 206,897,100 | (30,500,500) | 176,914,394 |
| Total operating expense to be voted | 176,396,600 | 206,897,100 | ($30,500,500) | 176,914,394 | |
| Total operating expense | 176,396,600 | 206,897,100 | ($30,500,500) | 176,914,394 | |
Capital expense |
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| 3 | Research support capital expense | 105,168,800 | 110,642,000 | (5,473,200) | 60,734,909 |
| Total capital expense to be voted | 105,168,800 | 110,642,000 | ($5,473,200) | 60,734,909 | |
| Total capital expense | 105,168,800 | 110,642,000 | ($5,473,200) | 60,734,909 | |
Standard account by item and sub-items
| Vote- item number |
Standard account by item and sub-items | Amount $ |
|---|---|---|
Operating expense |
||
| 3005-1 | Research support operating expense | |
Salaries and wages |
2,958,300 | |
Employee benefits |
399,400 | |
Transportation and communication |
16,500 | |
Services |
248,000 | |
Supplies and equipment |
15,400 | |
Transfer payments |
||
Research operating costs |
172,759,000 | |
| Total operating expense to be voted | 176,396,600 | |
| Total operating expense for research program | 176,396,600 | |
Capital expense |
||
| 3005-3 | Research support capital expense | |
Transfer payments |
||
澳门永利 research fund - research infrastructure |
105,168,800 | |
| Total capital expense to be voted | 105,168,800 | |
| Total capital expense for research program | 105,168,800 | |
Footnotes
- footnote[1] Back to paragraph Total operating expense includes statutory appropriations, special warrants and total operating expense to be voted.