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  • #16
    I work in PSE, and we have a lot of students who are serial enrollers - they enrol in one programme, fail, and seek admission to another program at the same institution (so they can maintain social networks, friends, etc). The institution doesn't have an incentive to kick the student out as long as tuition gets paid. The worst that can happen is that the student gets put on academic probation which just limits the number of courses they can take at one time. If students are good at gaming the system, they can move endlessly from one programme to another, and many programmes are desperate enough to increase their head count that they'll take students under just about any circumstances.

    If the OP wants to limit post-secondary slacking, s/he might consider using academic probation as the standard - set something up whereby support stops if the student spends more than one semester on probation.

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    • #17
      In BC this case is used as a baseline for determining 'children of the marriage' as it relates to post-secondary education and BC judges more often then not refer to it:

      Farden v. Farden, 1993 CanLII 2570 (BC SC), <CanLII - 1993 CanLII 2570 (BC SC)

      Specifically:

      (1) whether the child is in fact enroled in a course of studies and whether it is a full-time or part-time course of studies;
      (2) whether or not the child has applied for or is eligible for student loans or other financial assistance;
      (3) the career plans of the child, i.e. whether the child has some reasonable and appropriate plan or is simply going to college because there is nothing better to do;
      (4) the ability of the child to contribute to his own support through part-time employment;
      (5) the age of the child;
      (6) the child's past academic performance, whether the child is demonstrating success in the chosen course of studies;
      (7) what plans the parents made for the education of their children, particularly where those plans were made during cohabitation;
      (8) at least in the case of a mature child who has reached the age of majority, whether or not the child has unilaterally terminated a relationship from the parent from whom support is sought.

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