Pearson Vue GED Testing Service, the company behind the test, is ending service in Canada after this month.
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When the end of the program was announced last year, provinces were left to find their own solutions.
Isn’t privatization grand?
First of all: it’s insane.
Second of all, it’s a TERRIBLE business move. The GED is so culturally ubiquitous in The USA and Canada, I think people just assume it’s a federal program.
The LAST thing, if I were them, that I’d want to do is remind people it isn’t. As soon as state politicians realize the test is in play, suddenly Florida realizes they can create and deploy their own, loading questions with the same bullshit culture war that they’re pushing K-12. Then Mississippi. Then Texas. Then as a response Oregon and Maine do their own.
Suddenly the who scam comes crashing down.
Feliciant said she has performed well in her training courses at Mohawk College, but hasn’t heard from TVO ILC, Ontario’s sole GED provider, to book her test.
The organization also only has a one-hour window — from 1-2 p.m. — for people to call in.
I don’t have anything more to add but to stare in shock at how stupidly the GED program is set up. You already know the Education Ministry has short-changed this organization in every possible way.
I gave up getting my ged. It wasn’t worth the time it took just to get everyone to agree about what you need.
It sucks that some jobs require it, but weirdly enough I managed to get into university by upgrading a couple courses.This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the meantime, people who miss the deadline to schedule a test this year won’t get another chance — and without any alternative right now in some provinces, such as Ontario, adults wanting to get the equivalent to a high school diploma will face barriers.
“People have reorganized their entire lives to pursue [a GED] … and then one day in August we let them know, ‘You’ve got four months to get yourselves organized and if you do not write and pass this test by that date, all those efforts have been a waste.’”
Devon Acker, an academic instructor at Ogwehoweh Skills and Trades Training Centre (OSTTC) in Six Nations of the Grand River, said people who don’t make it into this cohort will be “in limbo.”
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce told reporters on Thursday the province is looking to Alberta to build out a program — possibly a reference to the CAEC, though he didn’t name it.
Feliciant said she has performed well in her training courses at Mohawk College, but hasn’t heard from TVO ILC, Ontario’s sole GED provider, to book her test.
Feliciant said if she can’t book her GED, she’ll have to spend a few years to complete ACE, but that would mean less time being able to work as a carpenter — her ultimate goal.
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