{"id":979,"date":"2025-03-27T20:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/?page_id=979"},"modified":"2025-03-27T20:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:42:03","slug":"aug-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/aug-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"AUG Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you have questions or need help with applying to financial aid? You can talk to our <a href=\"https:\/\/acp.viu.ca\/acp-student-advisors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACP Student Advisors<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Applying for AUG Funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Adult Upgrading Grant (AUG) is funding from the provincial government that you do not pay back. It is for students enrolled in Adult Basic Education (ABE), Workplace Essential Skills Training (WEST) or English as a Second Language (ESL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For information and a fillable PDF: <a href=\"https:\/\/services.viu.ca\/financial-aid-awards\/adult-upgrading-grant-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adult Upgrading Grant Information Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adult Upgrading Grant applications <strong>MUST be submitted BEFORE your tuition is due<\/strong>. Refunds are not issued to students who have already paid for their tuition\/books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AUG Funded Books and Textbooks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have already been approved for AUG and need your books, email <a href=\"mailto:acp@viu.ca\">ACP@viu.ca<\/a> or call 250.740.6425 for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Information about Financial Aid &amp; Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>VIU&#8217;s Financial Aid &amp; Awards department has information about scholarships, bursaries, and funding for post-secondary students. Click here to go to their website:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/services.viu.ca\/financial-aid-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Financial Aid and Awards Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have questions or need help with applying to financial aid? You can talk to our ACP Student Advisors for more information. Applying for AUG Funding The Adult Upgrading&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-979","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","empty-entry-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/acplearnonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}