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The Ministry of Education is continuing its investment in the province’s dual-credit high school programs by announcing Wednesday a $16.4-million investment over the next four years.

“This is considerable expansion,” said Education Minister David Eggen. “I would say that it probably doubles the expenditures from the previous years and thus we would expect it would at least double the students participating in the next four years.”

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The funding includes $8 million to develop at least 40 new dual-credit courses per year over the four years. Many of the new courses are expected to be available to students in September.

In the spring of 2014, after a one-year test project, then-premier Dave Hancock announced $11 million to fund a larger, three-year dual credit initiative. That previous funding recently ended.

“The pilot had expired and so we knew that it was a very successful program and we knew that with our future-ready initiative that we could see tangible results, students (getting) higher completion rates, better attendance rates and better post-secondary participation from the pilot,” Eggen said Wednesday.