The former controversial Montreal Campus Cégep de la Gaspésie and Islands that welcomed students in English before lease in recent months was a new profession, learning Obligation. The College of Bois-de-Bullogne will make it a pavilion to accommodate within two years, about 1600 healthcare students and France.
This anonymous appearance building, located on Henri-Bourassa Boulevard, next to the Homonym Metro station, in the Ahuntsic-Cartirerville district, welcomed the campus for university studies offered to India and China for years. Then he was named Matrix College.
This situation raised in 2020 the anger of the French Quebec movement and former Minister of Education, now responsible for the French language, Jean-François Roberge. He then claimed that Molière’s tongue was more promoted between the walls of this device.
Ontario entrepreneur Naveen Kolan, the founder of the company holding this building, Hermès Group, was arrested in 2020 for its role in carrying out the recruitment network of foreign students in private universities in Quebec.
Since then, the Matrix College has moved a few months ago in another building owned by the same society located on Boulevard Crémazie, in the Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Expesion district. However, Cégep de la Gaspésie and islands stopped recruiting new students in this building, confirmed the facility at Obligation.
New profession
Since last spring, so unoccupied, this building, which was still held by Hermès, has been selected in recent months College of Bois-de-Sborne, which decided to rent it for 10 years to organize a new pavilion.
The announcement for this purpose was organized on Monday before the presence of the Minister of Higher Education, Pascale Déry. Obligation However, it could consult the details of this notification under the embarge.
This building will therefore open gradually from winter 2026 and will be fully occupied in the autumn of 2027.
She welcomes more than 400 France students among her walls to satisfy the growing demand in this respect. The floor of the pavilion will also be devoted to accommodation of 1050 students in three representatives, technical and continuous training in nursing, while another part of the building will be used to train 150 students in further education programs.
“It is obvious that it is 1600, but a large part of these students will be on the hybrid course, with distance teaching and in the present, in this pavilion,” the director said in an interview for further education and services to BOIS-DE-BULOGNE College, Simon Delamarre.
This project benefits from an investment of $ 14.5 million from Quebec. Du Lot, 10 million will be used to pay the rent and the rest, to finance the development of AC premises to obtain computer equipment, from the simulation of nursing and furniture adapted to the needs of this expansion of Cegep. “We want it to be a modern environment, especially in the medical field, in the context of the environment of care and where digital health changes the working function,” added Mr. Deramarre.
CEO Cegep, Pascale Srard, expects it to combine training already offered in its facility and those offered in this pavilion: “We will become the largest training center in Quebec nursing care”. The manager of which CEGEP accused the highest assets of assets in the higher education network last year also emphasizes that its establishment needs new spaces to meet the needs of its growing student population. What this pavilion will allow.
“I am very glad that I can participate in the implementation of this project, which will allow us to emphasize our efforts to establish a qualified workforce by offering students a stimulating environment with state -of -the -art facilities” because part of it reacted by the Minister of Higher Education. Pascale Déry, besides.
The official name of this new pavilion will be determined at the end of consultations with the student community of CEGEP, which will be carried out in the coming months, said college Obligation.
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