DCHP-2

Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel CEGEP, cegep, cégep DCHP-2 (July 2016)

• n. — Quebec, Education

  a public two-year college exclusive to the Quebec post-secondary education system, offering both vocational training and pre-university programs.

  Type: 1. Origin — Collèges d'enseignement général et professionnel were launched in 1967 by the Québec provincial government in response to a recommendation by the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Education in the Province of Québec in 1962. They are commonly referred to as CEGEPs, and provide technical and vocational programs similar to those in community colleges in the rest of Canada. However, Quebec students also attend them to attain the "Diplôme d'études collégiales", or DEC, which is required for admission to university for most students. This diploma takes two years to complete; thus high school programs and university degrees typically take a year less to complete in Quebec (see the 1996 and 2016 quotations). The term is almost exclusive to Québec (see Charts 1 and 2) and Canada (see Charts 3 and 4).
  COD-2 labels the term as "(in Quebec)".

  See also: CEGEP  

  • The abbreviated form CEGEP is the favoured term, both in written and in spoken forms.