In the maneuver, which cost tens of millions of dollars to the Government of Quebec, Teluq went through Syrian refugees registered in language courses for baccalaureate students to get loans and scholarships to which they were not entitled.
After this affair, the former CEO of Teluq, Martin Noël, former Liberal Minister Hélène David, was suspended in July 2018. Mr. Noël was then rehabilitated in 2019 and compensated up to $ 260,000 University of Quebec – a network that is part of the Teluq – based on a confidential agreement.
Ministers for education at that time, Jean-François Roberge, then said that she was “a little swollen under the previous government”. Mr. Roberge did not want to return to the case as part of this article.
At the peak of this saga, the Professor Union in 2019 condemned the fact that the approach to the investigative report was rejected for the media. Seven years later, as part of a number of articles on Teluq training sessions, Obligation has gained a copy.
“Vulnerable” clientele
The report of the Ministry of Higher Education of June 2018 describes the team team describes the system developed by Teluq since 2016. At that time, the Agreement will enter: This has tied the university and mother of the Institute, the joint company created two years earlier and whose shareholders are held by two issues with numbers.
Mother’s mission is to hire students from cultural communities to complete the language courses offered by Teluq, mostly part of the time. Mother must also provide mentoring and supervision of students. The Institute then presents itself as a “university”, which is contrary to the reality to the law (see field).
Almost all students admitted as part of the partnership were born outside Canada. “About half” of them were Syrian refugees, we read in the investigation report.
To encourage them to register for Teluq, Mother and University would make them look at the possibility of using government loans and scholarship programs. In the report we would use “financial assistance to study as a means of attraction for this vulnerable clientele of immigrants”. The Erty Students, “living uncertain financial situation, would be encouraged to ask for financial assistance from studying to obtain mainly scholarships,” the ministry’s document said.
False students in the bachelor
To be eligible for loans and scholarships, Teluq told the Ministry of Education that these students were entered in Baccalaureate. However, the training followed was 9 to 30 credits, while Baccalaureate is equivalent to 90 to 120 university credits.
“Therefore, by this statement, students will become eligible for the financial assistance of the Ministry on the basis of inaccurate information,” he reads. Obviously, “all these students are declared by Teluq as students registered in Baccalaureate, while they are registered for short programs that are not all (eligible) for financial assistance”.
In the end, almost all students received their mother were able to accept loans and scholarships and generate tens of millions of expenses in Quebec.
Financial aid payments for Teluq students increased from $ 7.8 million in 2010–2011 to 27.1 million in 2016–2017. Only on scholarships the payments made by the Ministry jumped. From 4.5 million in 2010–2011, six years later were 19 million.
In 2016–2017, more than half of these scholarships or nearly $ 10 million were awarded to Teluq-Matci students. That year, “83 % of students registered in Teluq benefits from financial assistance for study,” says the reconnaissance report.
The document emphasizes that this practice was able to seal the educational horizon of students or place them in an uncertain financial situation. “The financial assistance service fears that these students who receive financial assistance for studying programs will not be able to address their financial obligations to the Ministry. This could prevent them from qualifying in the future.
Paying for Teluq and Mother
The cooperation was also fertile for Teluq. She exploded her student clientele. In 2018, two years after joining the agreement, the students hired only the mother counted for 29 % of the Teluq prices, we see in the report.
The educational rights needed for students had to be the same as the rights paid by other Teluq students. Unlike others, on the other hand, students did not have the opportunity to postpone the date of their lessons, reports. If they did not complete their studies within 15 weeks that were assigned to them, they should register in the next meeting. “This practice results in generating other inscriptions, while potentially represents the problem of justice towards other Telq students”, we read in the document.
In order to justify our cooperation with Mother, Teluq said that students who have been adopted for language courses continue to study in another of their programs. However, his wishes have never achieved: only 22 out of 5,500 students hired this partnership (0.004 %) and then actually studied in another Teluq program.
The cooperation also made it possible to obtain 9.5 million license fees for four years from 2014 to 2018.
Never informed
The investigation report states that the agreement concerned has never been submitted to the Teluq Board of Directors, “despite the amounts involved”. It also emphasizes that the contract was to be awarded after a public tender and that the mother should have had permission from the Office for the Financial Market to obtain it, which was not the case.
Obligation Martin Noël asked for this text. A professor who is still working for Teluq said he was unable to answer our questions because of the confidentiality agreement signed in May 2019.
She didn’t want to comment on the University of Quebec, which compensated Mr. Noël for $ 260,000. As for the Teluq, she remembered that “she has no business connection with his mother since autumn 2018”. “Given the seniority of the ensemble, we will not submit other requests for information on this topic,” wrote the director of her communication department.
Money for courses in Alberta
The document of the Ministry of Higher Investigation also emphasizes that some students have hired a mother on behalf of Teluq with the “InterunativeSity certificate in English” offered together – and at a distance – University of Athabasca based in Alberta. Quebec, however, does not provide loans and scholarships for programs provided by equipment outside Quebec, reminds the investigators.
It is also indicated that students who complete second language courses can already receive financial support from the Ministry for Immigration, France and Integration and make them incomprehensible to loans and scholarships from the Ministry of Education. In short, “financial assistance for
In this process, the investigative team noted that “some former employees told the auditors to offer teaching services” and “that during the evaluation they have their instructions, even if it means ignoring stamps of plagiarism”. The Ministry’s team therefore asked him to “stand up (to assess) whether it is acceptable that Teluq entrusts part of his teaching of a private company, in which case the law on institutions at the university should be expected”.
Teluq didn’t want to say Obligation If it has been done. Obligation He also asked the Ministry last Friday whether he was really interested in this topic. Five days later, the Ministry sent this application to its access to the information service, which will result in postponing a possible reaction at least 20 days.
Reminder Obligation Last October, he also revealed that Teluq delegated research activities in schools at GECA at Normand St-Georges from 2014 to 2017, who presented himself as a university researcher. The government returned part of the Teluq ensemble to the authority of the public contract, so that the supervisory organization investigates university methods.
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