The Quebec government says it has reached a deal with the province’s English-language universities to increase the percentage of out-of-province students who are capable of having basic conversations in French by the time they complete undergraduate degrees
The province says it will provide about $20 million per year to the universities over the next eight years as part of the deal.
Quebec expects about 60 percent of out-of-province students in undergraduate programs at McGill, Concordia and Bishop’s to have basic French-speaking skills by graduation.
Officials from the universities say they are far from this target at the moment, but are confident they can achieve it….