TAV College
{{Short description|Canadian private college}}
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|Technology and Vocational College
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|Torah and Technology School
|Torah and Vocational Institute}}
| type = Private CÉGEP{{r|cjn_2013}}
| established = {{Start date|1989}}
| founder = Abraham Boyarsky{{r|cjn_2012}}
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| address = 6333 Décarie Boulevard
| city = Montreal
| province = Quebec
| country = Canada
| postalcode = H3W 3E1
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TAV College ({{Langx|fr|Collège TAV}}) is a not-for-profit private{{r|tav_home}} CÉGEP in the Snowdon neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec.
History
The Torah and Technology School was founded in 1989, with the aim of providing vocational training to members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. It was later renamed the Torah and Vocational (TAV) Institute.{{r|history_2003}} TAV received government funding via an affiliation with the public CÉGEP Collège Marie-Victorin,{{r|cjn_2012}} through which students could obtain a Diploma of College Studies or Attestation of College Studies certificate.{{r|weinstein_sepinwall}}
In 1999, TAV signed a three-year{{r|gazette_2000_2}} agreement with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), under which students at TAV could earn university credits.{{r|gazette_1999}} 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.{{r|gazette_2000_1}}{{r|cbc_2000_2}} TAV launched a lawsuit against UQAM for $8.1 million in damages.{{r|devoir_2001}}{{r|ajyb_2002}}
Quebec's Ministry of Education and Higher Education 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.{{r|cbc_2009}}{{r|globeandmail_2009}} TAV was accredited as an independent, private CÉGEP by the Ministry in 2010, and renamed the Technology and Vocational (TAV) College.{{r|about_2024}}{{r|handgregory}}
TAV College introduced a Grade 12 program in 2022 in response to Bill 96, which introduced caps on how many students could be admitted to English-language CÉGEPs.{{r|ctv_2022}}{{r|suburban_2022}}
References
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{{cite news|title=Montreal schools offering Grade 12 as work-around due to Bill 96 caps in English CEGEPs|archive-date=December 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205131213/https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-schools-offering-grade-12-as-work-around-due-to-bill-96-caps-in-english-cegeps-1.5930212|url=https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-schools-offering-grade-12-as-work-around-due-to-bill-96-caps-in-english-cegeps-1.5930212|newspaper=CTV News}}
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Category:1989 establishments in Quebec
Category:Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce