Association Chrétienne des Parents-Éducateurs du Québec

Options for Recognition of Education at Home

This information is posted as of April 2008, at a time when important changes are taking place in the Québec education system. We do not know to what extent the Reform in education will have an effect on the adult or distance education programmes. It is important to remember that we are preparing our young people to succeed I whatever postsecondary option they choose, and not according to the Québec education programme presently in effect in the high schools.

Preliminary Information Regarding

Postsecondary Institutions

College (Cégep):

To gain access to college, students should focus in on the mastery of concepts for those courses that are prerequisites to the programme chosen.

University:

A student may also make a request for admission and go directly to university. Some universities, such as Ottawa University and McGill University, are more flexible with homeschooling candidates. Ottawa University even has a policy for homeschoolers posted on their website. A student may also register for distance courses with Athabaska University in Alberta. Trinity Western University in British Columbia offers a special online programme geared to homeschoolers, with a guarantee that credits can be transferred.

Options

Apprenticeship

Diploma of Vocational Studies (DVS)

Secondary School Diploma (SSD) via a school board

Three options:

1. Conventional School

2. Adult Education

3. Distance Education

Official homeschool transcript

Home transcript with high school portfolio


Apprenticeship

Definition

Advantages

Disadvantages/Challenges

Recent experience in Québec

Contact

 


Vocational Studies Diploma (VSD)

Procedure

Advantages

Disadvantages / Challenges

Recent experience in Québec

Contact


Secondary School Diploma (SSD) via a school board – First of three options:

1. Conventional School

Procedure

Advantages

Disadvantages / Challenges

Contact

 


Secondary School Diploma (SSD) via a school board – Second of three options:

2. Adult Education

Procedure

Student contacts school board and placement tests are administered to determine grade level for each subject.

Advantages

Disadvantages / Challenges

Contact


Secondary School Diploma (SSD) via a school board – Third of three options:

3. Distance Education

Procedure

Student inquires at an appropriate school board (not all administrative regions in Québec have a Distance Education center). Well worth doing some shopping to compare costs since a student is not required to register with the school board that is closest to his residence.

Advantages

Disadvantages / Challenges

Contact(s)


Official homeschool transcript

(Examples: ACE, Tree of Life, Bob Jones, Christian Light Education, etc.)

Procedure

 Advantages

 Disadvantages / Challenges

 Experience in Québec

Contact(s)

 


Home transcript with high school portfolio and overview

for the last years of high school

Procedure

Advantages

Disadvantages / Challenges

Experience au Québec

1. Evaluations by certified teachers included in the portfolio, attesting to the fact that the student had passed exams for prerequisites and corresponding to the total number of credits usually required in high school.

2. The College Education Regulations – General and Vocational Colleges Act (updated February 2008) article 2.2, stipulates the following:

2.2. Despite sections 2 and 2.1, a college may admit a person to a program of studies leading to a Diploma of College Studies if the person has received instruction the college considers equivalent.

Contact(s)