Potential cutbacks to international student medical coverage by the province, could impact Mountain View School Division’s program.
Bart Michaleski, Secretary/Treasurer for MVSD, explains the concern:
“We’re lacking some information, currently, on that but we set a fee schedule annually for our students that are coming for the next school year. We already accepted a number of students for the next school year and we accepted them based on our approved fee structure. Within that fee structure, we have a small premium that international students pay for health and that’s something that’s obviously likely to change.”
Each student pays on average, about $20,000 for the school year to attend.
The program has brought cultural diversity as well as provided an economic benefit to the area.
On average, with the program, the Parkland has seen $850,000 annually with 40% of that going to the division and the rest to the area.
