640 students in the Thompson Okanagan just had some help with their tuition costs.
CEO of Interior Savings, Cathy Conway, says this year they are awarding 640 thousand dollars in bursaries to students all over the region.
“They do have to be enrolled in a post secondary program for it, but that’s their choice, we don’t have any sort of guidance on that, as long as it qualifies for the tuition deduction under Revenue Canada, a recognized post secondary institution, then they can go and get the money to use.”
In Kamloops, 22 of those thousand dollar bursaries were awarded to graduating students at Valleyview Secondary.