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Some parents of children in is concerned because the application deadline for CEGEP is March 1 and the Federation of CEGEPs said that deadline will not change.
CEGEP teachers and support staff are on strike this week as part of the Common Front of unions. The strike means that final exams have been delayed, with some being postponed to 2024. Some students are not happy about this, or that some colleges are opting to hold makeup classes and exams over the holidays.
It will be “difficult, if not impossible” to cram in the minimum required number of hours before Christmas.
College students in Quebec may be taking exams or even classes over the winter holidays, as administrators scramble to find ways to hold the required number of classes in a semester.
The province's largest English-language public school board says it is cancelling all high school mid-year board exams due to the ongoing public sector worker strike in Quebec.