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| Type | Private CÉGEP[2] |
| Established | 1989 (1989) |
| Founder | Abraham Boyarsky[3] |
| Director | Elazar Meroz[4] |
| Address | 6333 Décarie Boulevard , Montreal , Quebec , H3W 3E1 , Canada |
| Language | English, French |
| Website | tav |
TAV College (French: Collège TAV) is a not-for-profit private[5] CÉGEP in the Snowdon neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec.
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.[6] TAV received government funding via an affiliation with the public CÉGEP Collège Marie-Victorin,[3] through which students could obtain a Diploma of College Studies or Attestation of College Studies certificate.[7]
In 1999, TAV signed a three-year[8] agreement with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), under which students at TAV could earn university credits.[9] 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.[10][11] TAV launched a lawsuit against UQAM for $8.1 million in damages.[12][13]
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.[14][15] TAV was accredited as an independent, private CÉGEP by the Ministry in 2010, and renamed the Technology and Vocational (TAV) College.[16][17]
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.[18][19]