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C.C.S.M. c. A6.3
The Advanced Education Administration Act
The following definitions apply in this Act.
"council" means the Council on Post-Secondary Education established under The Council on Post-Secondary Education Act. (« Conseil »)
"department" means a department, branch or office of the executive government of the province, but does not include the council. (« ministère »)
"educational identifier" means the educational identifier designated by the minister under subsection 6(1). (« identificateur scolaire »)
"educational institution" means
(a) a university and a college, as defined in The Council on Post-Secondary Education Act;
(b) an institution that receives a grant under subsection 27.1(1) of The Council on Post-Secondary Education Act;
(c) an adult learning centre registered under The Adult Learning Centres Act;
(d) an adult literacy agency that receives funding under The Adult Literacy Act; and
(e) a prescribed educational provider. (« établissement d'enseignement »)
"individual student information" means, in respect of a student,
(a) personal information as defined in The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act;
(b) personal health information as defined in The Personal Health Information Act, but only respecting any disability that the student may have; and
(c) the educational identifier assigned to the student. (« renseignements sur un élève »)
"minister" means the minister appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to administer this Act. (« ministre »)
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulation.
"student" means a person who is or applies to be a student, a learner or an attendee of an educational institution, and includes
(a) a person who is or applies to be an apprentice, in respect of the technical training engaged in by the apprentice under The Apprenticeship and Trades Qualifications Act;
(b) a person who is receiving or applies for student aid under The Student Aid Act; and
(c) a pupil who is enrolled in grades 9 to 12 in Manitoba. (« élève »)
The mandate of the minister is to
(a) facilitate high quality, affordable and accessible post-secondary education and adult learning;
(b) develop, administer, monitor and evaluate government programming that supports post-secondary education and adult learning;
(c) support seamless and coherent linkages across the education, learning and training systems;
(d) monitor and evaluate, and conduct research and analysis about, post-secondary education and adult learning; and
(e) ensure that information reported by the government about post-secondary education and adult learning is accurate and timely.
Considerations by the minister
In carrying out his or her mandate, the minster must have regard for
(a) the respective autonomy of educational institutions; and
(b) the council's relationship to the government, as set out in The Council on Post-Secondary Education Act.
Minister may request information be provided
For the purposes of section 2, the minister may request the following to provide information to the minister:
(a) the council;
(b) an adult learning centre;
(c) an adult literacy agency;
(d) a prescribed educational provider;
(e) a department.
Council may be requested to collect information for the minister
The minister may request the council to collect information on the minister's behalf from an institution, as defined in subsection 12.1(1) of The Council on Post-Secondary Education Act, and provide it to the minister.
Limit on individual student information
The information referred to in subsection (1) or (2) may include individual student information about an identifiable student or former student, but only if the minister is satisfied that the information is necessary
(a) to examine student participation, attrition and completion;
(b) to understand and track patterns of student progress, mobility, outcomes and employment;
(c) to monitor progress toward increasing participation and success of under-represented groups;
(d) to understand linkages among universities, colleges and institutions, high schools, adult learning centres, adult literacy programs and prescribed educational providers;
(e) to understand and anticipate trends in program choices among students;
(f) to understand sources and patterns of student finance;
(g) to plan ways of enhancing the affordability and accessibility of post-secondary education and adult learning; or
(h) to identify conditions or barriers that inhibit student participation, progress, completion and transition to employment or future educational opportunities.
On receiving a request made by the council under section 12.6 of The Council on Post-Secondary Education Act, the minister may request individual student information from a department and provide it to the council.
An entity that receives a request under this section must provide the information requested in the form and within the time specified by the minister.
Additional limits re individual student information
The minister must
(a) not request or collect individual student information if other information will serve the purpose; and
(b) limit the amount of individual student information requested or collected to the minimum amount necessary to accomplish the purpose.
Permitted collection, use and disclosure continue
Nothing in this Act limits the authority of the minister to collect, use and disclose individual student information if authorized or required to do so by law, including The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act or The Personal Health Information Act.
In carrying out his or her mandate, the minister may use the information, including individual student information, that the minister collects under this Act and the other Acts under his or her administration.
Designation of educational identifier
The minister may designate an educational identifier to be used in respect of a student, which may be the Manitoba education number that is provided for in The Education Administration Act.
If requested by the minister, an entity listed in subsection 3(1) must use the student's educational identifier when providing individual student information about an identifiable student to the minister.
In accordance with the directions given by the minister, an entity listed in subsection 3(1) must ensure that it collects and provides to the minister the individual student information necessary in order
(a) to verify a student's educational identifier; or
(b) to assign an educational identifier to a student who does not have one.
Designation of other department
The minister may designate a department that is not under that minister's administration to act on the minister's behalf for the purposes of verifying and assigning educational identifiers, if the minister responsible for the other department agrees.
Verifying and assigning identifiers
The minister or, if a department has been designated, the department, may
(a) verify a student's educational identifier or assign an identifier to a student who does not have one; and
(b) provide the verified or assigned identifier to the entity that provided the information.
Duty to adopt security safeguards
The minister must protect all information, including individual student information, collected under this Act by adopting reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards that ensure the confidentiality, security, accuracy and integrity of the information.
Safeguards for sensitive information
In determining the reasonableness of security safeguards adopted under subsection (1), the degree of sensitivity of the information to be protected must be taken into account.
The minister must establish one or more committees to make recommendations to the minister about
(a) the individual student information to be requested under this Act, the process for requesting it and the process for providing it to the minister; and
(b) any other matter the minister considers advisable.
Committee membership re information collected from universities and colleges
The committee responsible for making recommendations under clause (1)(a) about individual student information requested from universities and colleges must include
(a) a chairperson and one or more other persons, who may be employees of the government, appointed by the minister; and
(b) at least three persons, each from a different university or college, as defined in The Council on Post-Secondary Education Act, appointed by the minister after being nominated by the respective university or college.
In carrying out his or her mandate, the minister may
(a) enter into an agreement with a person or entity or the government of Canada or the government of a province or territory of Canada or an agency of any of them; and
(b) make awards and issue prizes to students, and to persons and entities who have contributed to post-secondary education and adult learning in Manitoba, out of money appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose.
The minister may delegate to an employee of the government any power conferred or duty imposed on the minister under this Act, other than the power to make regulations.
The minister may make regulations
(a) prescribing educational providers or classes of educational providers for the purposes of clause (e) of the definition "educational institution" in section 1;
(b) prescribing fees to be paid and the time or manner in which they must be paid for services provided by the department for which the minister is responsible;
(c) respecting any matter or thing that the minister considers necessary or advisable to carry out the intent and purpose of this Act.
This Act may be cited as The Advanced Education Administration Act and referred to as chapter A6.3 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.
This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.