Quebec junior college students have ‘reduced ability to study’ post-COVID: union head

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Quebec junior college students struggling after COVID-19 pandemic’s negative impact on studying

As post-secondary students prepare to return to class in the coming weeks, experts are worried about the impact of more than two years of pandemic-related disruptions on their ability to succeed.

“What we’re seeing right now is a difficulty in taking charge of themselves when it comes to their studies,” he said. “That’s something we didn’t see before the pandemic.” Prachi Srivastava, an associate professor of education and global development at Western University, says the impacts of the pandemic – and especially school closures – have had a “cumulative effect” on students that resulted in learning losses in areas such as literacy, mathematical ability and other skills.

For online classes to be successful, they need a specially tailored curriculum that takes into account the different method of delivery, including a different approach to teaching study skills, which she said wasn’t really done in Canada. Blanchet said many CEGEP teachers are already addressing individual academic issues by meeting with students and helping them fill in the gaps they’ve missed. But he said a wider effort is needed to develop a plan to address the pandemic-related learning gaps and help students develop academic skills through initiatives that could include workshops, extra classes or drop-in study halls.

The department said that while junior college work force levels aren’t lower this year compared with previous ones, “we have known for several years that some fields are harder to fill with regard to teachers, and we have various measures related to the work force operation to deal with this.”

 

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