TAV College () is a not-for-profit private

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in the

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neighbourhood of

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History

The Torah and Technology School was founded in 1989, with the aim of providing vocational training to members of the

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Jewish community. It was later renamed the Torah and Vocational (TAV) Institute. TAV received government funding via an affiliation with the public CÉGEP Collège Marie-Victorin, through which students could obtain a

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certificate. In 1999, TAV signed a three-year agreement with the

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(UQAM), under which students at TAV could earn university credits. The partnership ended the following year due to objections from UQAM's professors' union that some courses at TAV were gender-segregated and taught in English. TAV launched a lawsuit against UQAM for $8.1 million in damages. Quebec's

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cut the institute's funding in 2009 by ending its partnership with Collège Marie-Victorin, on the grounds that TAV didn't offer classes on Jewish holidays and that some classes were gender-segregated. TAV was accredited as an independent, private

by the Ministry in 2010, and renamed the Technology and Vocational (TAV) College. TAV College introduced a

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program in 2022 in response to

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, which introduced caps on how many students could be admitted to English-language CÉGEPs.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:TAV College 1989 establishments in Quebec Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Orthodox Jewish universities and colleges Private subsidized colleges in Quebec