According to Quebec, students will be able to better judge their academic progress in a course before abandoning it.
By giving students more latitude in their academic progress, we allow them to make better decisions and, ultimately, we encourage them to persevere in their study path.
A quote from Pascale Déry, Minister of Higher Education
The new measure will be implemented this year in both CEGEPs and private colleges.
These changes will allow students to maintain their status as person deemed to be studying full-time and, thus, to continue to benefit from free education. We ultimately apply at the college level what is already done in the university network, explains Minister Déry's office.
At the Federation of College Education (FEC-CSQ), the news is well received. This is a concern we have had for a long time. It's been almost two years since we met [on this subject] and we were waiting to see what the minister was going to do, explains Youri Blanchet.
In the studies as such, there is no negative effect brought by such a measure. In fact, the effects can only be positive, believes the president of the FEC-CSQ. This allows students to have a better idea of their situation within a course.
The current abandonment date is very early. It arrives in the fourth or fifth week, depending on the calendar, and sometimes there hasn't even been an evaluation or there has only been one evaluation.
A quote from Youri Blanchet, president of the Federation of College Education
There are plenty of students and college students. students who don't really know, and there, in order not to negatively influence their R rating, they give up.
This is also good news for teachers with precarious status, believes Mr. Blanchet. The very early abandonment date meant that their tasks could be reduced. […] If there were students who left, we calculated the task with the remaining students. There, by pushing back the abandonment date to 60% it is still interesting for our precarious teachers who will have a more substantial task.
The teaching task represents all of the activities that a teacher may be called upon to carry out as part of their duties.
Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116