The significant decline in school attendance does not stop at the Séminaire de Chicoutimi and the Lycée du Saguenay, which have decided to merge.
The Séminaire de Chicoutimi and the Lycée du Saguenay will become one from September 2007.
The heads of the two private educational institutions accepted the consolidation proposal, which had become necessary due to the decline in school clientele.
The name of the new institution has not yet been decided.
The Chicoutimi Seminary was founded in the second half of the 19th century by the first bishop of the Diocese of Chicoutimi, Mgr. Dominique Racine. The aim was to train future priests there. The seminary moved twice before settling in the former Grand Séminaire on Rue Chabanel. The school became mixed in 1993.
The Lycée, in turn, was founded 100 years after the seminary in 1973. It was founded by parents who wanted a private institution for their daughters. Here too, diversity would become crucial in the 1990s.
Here are two schools whose fates intersect today. “In the next two years, 1,200 fewer students than in primary and secondary education. It will affect both the public and private sectors. To see the situation outside, schools close. “This is a situation that exists now,” says the seminar’s director, François Bergeron.
It is the seminary building that will house the 960 students of the two schools, which will require significant work. “We’re talking about a total budget of around $5 million. “But what is important is that this fits perfectly into the financial framework because of the customers we will have and the changes we have to make,” says Mr. Bergeron.
Management assures parents that this consolidation would ensure that registration fees remain at current levels.
On the other hand, 18 of the current 63 apprenticeship positions will be eliminated. The unions of both companies are analyzing the consequences of these job cuts and trying to find ways to minimize the number of layoffs, which could be mitigated through pension incentives.
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