December 14, 2023
English universities blast report that 80% of foreign students will need intermediate French by graduation
Amid public cries for the university tuition hikes for out-of-province students to be scrapped, the Coalition Avenir Québec government is proposing additional measures to protect French – cutting tuition costs for francophone students from France, Belgium and Switzerland, and requiring 80 per cent of graduates from English-language universities to have an intermediate-level knowledge of French upon graduating. “If a government were trying to devise a plan to starve Quebec’s English-language universities out of existence, it would look a lot like this,” says Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network.