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With the addition of the Télé-université in June 2005, UQAM, with a student population of close to 60,000, was the largest French-speaking university in the world. [10] On 13 January 2012, it was announced that the TELUQ would again become a separate university from UQAM, but would remain in the Université du Québec system. [11]
École de technologie supérieure (French pronunciation: [ekɔl də tɛknɔlɔʒi sypeʁjœʁ], Higher Technology School, ÉTS), founded in 1974, is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and affiliated to the Université du Québec system.
The Université du Québec system was established in 1968 by the National Assembly of Quebec largely in response to widespread student protests that had broken out in the autumn of that year. In an effort to extend education to more Quebecois students, the government had created a system of CEGEPs to create a facilitated pathway into university.
Both private and public institutions (CEGEPs, which is officially coined in French as Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel) of this type exist within the province. Unique to Québec, college education serves to bridge compulsory schooling and university education, since it is the only province that requires 11 years of study ...
The Université de Montréal was founded in 1878 as a new branch of Université Laval from Quebec City. It was then known as the Université Laval à Montréal. [9] The move initially went against the wishes of the Bishop of Montréal, Édouard-Charles Fabre, who advocated an independent university in his city. [10]
It draws principally from the research carried out by Michel Paradis (1994, [1] 2004, [2] 2009 [3]) of McGill University and by the Institut des sciences cognitives, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), as well as by research conducted by Nick C. Ellis (Centre for Complex systems, University of Michigan).
The current building houses the Corporation du Fort Saint-Jean, a non-profit corporation which manages the site; Fort Saint-Jean Museum and is rented for private functions. The Musée du Fort Saint-Jean is located in Les Forges; the tour includes a historic interpretation of the campus's military facilities, heritage-related and contemporary.
From 1986 to 1988, Simon Harel completed, under the supervision of Régine Robin, a post-doctoral degree at the Department of Sociology, UQAM. He then became an independent researcher, funded by FCAR from 1988 to 1989, when he was made an adjunct professor at UQAM. In 1993, he was promoted to assistant professor and, in 1997, to a tenured position.