Quebec will amend Bill 96 to make allowances for anglophone students
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Eligible students who don't have the required language skills to take core courses in French, will be allowed to substitute them for three French-language classes of 45 hours each.
Quebec’s minister responsible for the French language has made a compromise on a controversial amendment to Bill 96, that would have required all students in English-language CEGEPs to take three program-related courses in French in order to graduate.
Instead, Simon Jolin-Barrette says students who don’t have the required language skills to take core courses in French will be allowed to substitute them for three French-language classes of 45 hours each.
Elisabeth Gosselin, a spokesperson for the minister, specified on Tuesday that English CEGEPs would be able to offer the option to students who were eligible to do their primary and secondary studies in English.
The initial amendment proposed by the Quebec Liberal Party and adopted during a parliamentary commission drew harsh criticism from the province’s CEGEP federation, as well as college administrators who said they had not been consulted.
The First Nations Education Council also spoke out against the initial amendment.
Critics argued English-speaking students were being set up for failure.
The fear was that some students wouldn’t be able to graduate at all, while others could see their grades and R scores plummet. The score rates a student’s academic performance and is used by Quebec universities for selection purposes.
According to the CEGEP federation, more than 35 per cent of the approximately 29,000 students enrolled in English-speaking CEGEPs do not have enough knowledge of the French language to take program-related courses in French.
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