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Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel
DCHP-2 (Aug 2012)
Spelling variants:CEGEP, cegep, cégep
n. — Quebec, Education
a public two-year college exclusive to the Quebec post-secondary education system, offering both vocational training and pre-university programs.
Type: 1. Origin — Collèges d'enseignement général et professionnel were launched in 1967 by the Québec provincial government in response to a recommendation by the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Education in the Province of Québec in 1962. They are commonly referred to as CEGEPs, and provide technical and vocational programs similar to those in community colleges in the rest of Canada. However, Quebec students also attend them to attain the "Diplôme d'études collégiales", or DEC, which is required for admission to university for most students. This diploma takes two years to complete; thus high school programs and university degrees typically take a year less to complete in Quebec (see the 1996 and 2016 quotations). The term is almost exclusive to Québec (see Charts 1 and 2) and Canada (see Charts 3 and 4).
COD-2 labels the term as "(in Quebec)".
COD-2 labels the term as "(in Quebec)".
See: CEGEP
The abbreviated form CEGEP is the favoured term, both in written and in spoken forms.
Quotations
1968
Could the CEGEP disturbances flash into a firestorm of French-style student-labor "contestation"?
1969
Though Dawson College is the first of the English-language CEGEPs, the junior college experiment began in Quebec in 1967 with 11 French-language CEGEPs and expanded the following year with 23.
1978
THE POSITION:
Vanier College, a Montreal CEGEP serving an English speaking population, has opened up this position in response to the rapid expansion of its Centre for Continuing Education
1989
One source said that the application was made in 1986, the same year that Lepine, the gunman, dropped out of classes at CEGEP St. Laurent only three months before he was to graduate.
1996
But those who argue Ontario's obligation to provide free education should top out at Grade 12 can point next door to Quebec, where students go to high school only until they are 16, to the equivalent of Grade 11. At that point, and some even have to leave home to do so, they enrol in junior colleges called CEGEPs, which offer two-year preparation programs for university.
References
- COD-2
Images
Chart 1: Regional Internet Domain Search, 10 Sep. 2012
Chart 2: Regional Internet Domain Search, 10 Sep. 2012
Chart 3: Internet Domain Search, 10 Sep. 2012
