Official Languages committee  Hello. Thank you for listening to us. My name is Suzie Durochers-Hendriks and I am an assistant professor at the Edmundston campus of the Université de Moncton. In 2014, 100% of students at our campus passed the entry-into-practice exam. In 2015, the pass rate was 30%, even tho

Official Languages committee  Yes, that is precisely it. The many problems related to that exam, including the French, were mentioned as early as 2012.

Official Languages committee  The quality of the French mainly, but there are other problems. For instance, the content is inappropriate and inadequate, and the exam does not reflect Canadian practice.

Official Languages committee  It is an American exam that was imposed on us.

Official Languages committee  Yes, there are.

Official Languages committee  It seems not.

Official Languages committee  I don't know.

Official Languages committee  When the draft exam came out, the problem of the lack of French resources was immediately apparent. We raised it. We asked where the translations were. We obtained them six months later. At that point we began to understand that there was a problem. No one expected that there wo

Official Languages committee  It is a four-year program.

Official Languages committee  You are quite right. I would like to mention that when our students are recommended as ready to practice their profession, they have before that point succeeded in all of the steps of the training. The national exam confirms the student's studies, and allows greater mobility, so

Official Languages committee  I am referring to the regulatory organizations. We did not participate in anything...

Official Languages committee  The organizations are provincial, and since 2011, they are part of an organization known in English as the CCRNR. In French the acronym is CCORPI, but I forget what it stands for.

Official Languages committee  It 's an organization that was formed suddenly, almost instantly, and claimed there was a need for change and a will to change the exam giving access to the profession.

Official Languages committee  In French it is the CCORPI. In English it's called the CCRNR, the Canadian Council of Registered Nurse Regulators.

Official Languages committee  Yes, it is.