Post-secondary and continuing education in French in the spotlight in Newfoundland and Labrador
Published on February 29, 2024
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, represented by the Honourable Sarah Stoodley (center left), Minister of Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador and Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs, and the Honourable Krysta Lynn Howell (center right), Minister of Education, hosted the Fédération des francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador (FFTNL) today, February 29, 2024, to discuss about focus areas and challenges related to post-secondary education and continuing education in French in Newfoundland and Labrador.
On this occasion, the FFTNL presented the 2024-2029 business plan on which nine of the province's francophone organizations have been working for the past year, in close collaboration with Memorial University of Newfoundland and the College of the North Atlantic, Newfoundland and Labrador's two public post-secondary institutions.
The Réseau des cégeps et des collèges francophones (RCCFC) has been supporting the project through the federal government's Strategic Fund's Development of Official-Language Communities Program, Community Life component.
The Official Languages in Education Program (OLEP), delivered by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, has also supported this project for the years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.
This meeting in Newfoundland and Labrador is a great step forward, just a few days before the Sommet national sur l'apprentissage pour la francophonie canadienne organized by the Réseau pour le développement de l'alphabétisme et des compétences (RESDAC), under the patronage of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. This gathering of leaders from the Canadian Francophonie will take place from March 4 to 6, 2024, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Pictured left to right: Regan Power (Director of Post-Secondary Education - Literacy and Institutional Services Division, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador), Tanya Noseworthy, (Assistant Deputy Minister of Post-Secondary Education), James Prowse (Director of the Office of French Language Services, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador), Gaël Corbineau (Executive Director, FFTNL), the Honourable Sarah Stoodley (Minister of Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador and Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs), the Honourable Krysta Lynn Howell (Minister of Education), Thomas Duggan (Director of Policy and Strategic Planning, Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador), Tony Cornect (President, FFTNL), Etienne Vuillaume (Coordinator, Post-Secondary Education and Continuing Education in French, FFTNL).
