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Education

Education and Higher Education

Highlights

  • The government reaffirms that educational success has been one of its top priorities since 2018.
  • Education spending increased by 55% between 2018-2019 and 2024-2025, an average annual growth of 7.5%.
    • In higher education, the total increase is 40.7%, for an average growth of 5.9% per year.
  • $1.1B over 5 years is planned to promote educational success, consolidate assistance for young people and students, promote recreation and sports, and support access to educational childcare services.

Educational success, staff and school spaces

  • $368M to promote educational success, including:
    • $165.6M to promote academic success:
      • $95M to enhance support for the linguistic, academic and social integration of newcomers;
      • $52.2M to support the development of students’ reading skills;
      • $16.4M to offer a new special pedagogical project focused on career exploration.
    • $39.2M to train more qualified teachers:
      • $18M to support university initiatives to address the shortage of qualified teachers;
      • $14.1M to support teachers without legal qualifications on their path to obtaining a teaching licence;
      • $7.1M to set up the one-stop service J’obtiens un brevet.
    • $68.9M to encourage retirees from the network to return to work (maintaining temporary financial incentives).
    • $95M to meet temporary needs for school space (building leases).

Assistance for young people and students

  • $279M to fund the student financial assistance program ($225M) and maintain services offered to young people on their path to independence ($53.5M).
    • $49M is planned for the 2025-2030 Youth Action Plan, to be announced by the minister responsible for youth during the year.

School infrastructure

  • $23.5B in the 2025-2035 Québec Infrastructure Plan (QIP) for the renovation of facilities and additional space in elementary and secondary schools.
  • $9B in the 2025-2035 QIP for higher education institutions.
    • Initially set at $247M in 2024-2025, investments in maintaining the CEGEP building stock will be gradually increased to reach about $273M in 2027-2028, a projected increase of 11% over 3 years.
  • 74% of these investments are intended to maintain existing infrastructure, and 26% for new infrastructure.

Recreation and sports

  • $300M for the Programme d’aide financière aux infrastructures récréatives, sportives et de plein air (financial assistance program for recreational, sports and outdoor infrastructure).
  • $15M to support recreation and sports for persons with disabilities.
  • $15M to support student sport and develop Quebec sporting excellence.

Childcare services

  • $72.6M to convert 1,000 non-subsidized childcare spaces into subsidized spaces.
  • $93.1M to keep services aligned with families’ needs ($93.1M), namely:
    • $82M to continue, optimize and modulate allowances for integrating vulnerable children into childcare services in order to better support those with greater needs.
    • $7.5M to encourage the participation of children with specific needs in the activities of community drop-in daycare centres.
    • $0.8M to extend the enhanced allowance paid to providers offering childcare services during non-standard hours.
  • $5.2M to roll out a new registration portal for childcare services.