THE Minnis administration has allocated $21m for tuition grant programmes to “effectively cover all Bahamian full-time students” at the University of the Bahamas and Bahamas Vocational and Technical Institute, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said yesterday.

Dr Minnis said this is an increase of $15.2m on public spending on scholarships and related financial support for these institutions.

Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Dr Minnis also touted the government’s universal Pre-Primary Education Initiative as possibly being “one of the greater poverty reduction initiatives in the history of this country”.

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