Funding for the Inuit Post-Secondary Education (IPSE) Program comes from an investment of $125.5 million over 10 years and $21.8 million per year thereafter announced in Budget 2019. About three-quarters of the funding will go towards direct support for Inuit students. Most of the balance will fund regional engagement activities to draw more Inuit students into PSE and services like academic training and counselling, to help Inuit students succeed in PSE programs.

The funding is available to Inuit regardless of their place of residency or where they are going to school if they are enrolled under:

• the Inuvialuit Final Agreement
• the Nunavut Agreement
• the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and
• the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement

Funding will be administered by Inuit land claims organizations in the four regions of Inuit Nunangat or their designated delivery organizations, through existing program streams. Regional allocation of the funds for 2020 and 2021 follows a model agreed upon by the ITK Board of Directors in December 2019. It amounts to:

• $1,052,531 for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
• $4,056,291 for Nunavut
• $2,024,097 for Nunavik and
• $963,470 for Nunatsiavut for the 2020-2021 year