Quebec’s auditor finds Education Department ill-prepared for pivot to online learning – Montreal | 24CA News

Quebec’s auditor common says the province’s Education Department was ill-prepared when the COVID-19 pandemic pressured colleges to shutter in March 2020 and it nonetheless doesn’t have a whole image of the educational delays that resulted.

Guylaine Leclerc expresses concern in her audit of the Education Department that the shortage of information received’t allow for efficient remedial measures, that means some college students might drop out and be disadvantaged of a diploma.

Her report says it’s not irreversible, nevertheless it’s vital to know the place college students are struggling to have the ability to put applicable measures in place.

The report additionally finds the province was gradual to supply college boards, often called service centres in Quebec, with steering on the minimal academic companies to be provided within the spring of 2020, which led to extensively totally different choices relying on the varsity district.

Many service centres additionally didn’t have the required computer systems to pivot to on-line schooling, and for some that state of affairs endured 18 months into the pandemic.

Leclerc was additionally important of the division’s buy of $42 million in video-conferencing gear that is still largely unused.