I-13.021 - Act respecting the Institut national d’excellence en éducation

Section 9 Disposition versions

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9. The institute is administered by a board of directors consisting of 13 members.

The members are

(1)  the board chair;

(2)  the president and chief executive officer;

(3)  six persons working in the field of preschool education, elementary or secondary school education, vocational training or adult education, including one person with expertise in the field of services for handicapped students and students with social maladjustments or learning disabilities and at least

(a)  one teacher;

(b)  one school guidance counsellor;

(c)  one person who is not a teacher or a school guidance counsellor but who provides educational services to students; and

(d)  two members of the executive staff, including one director general or assistant director general of a school service centre;

(4)  one parent representative;

(5)  one university professor from an education faculty, school or department;

(6)  a member from the research sector;

(7)  one member from an organization working in the fields of school perseverance and school success; and

(8)  one other person who is not referred to in subparagraphs 3 to 7.

The members are appointed by the Government, on the Minister’s recommendation. Members referred to in subparagraphs 3 to 7 of the second paragraph are appointed after consulting with organizations that the Minister considers to be representative.

In addition, the composition of the board of directors must allow the presence of at least one person working in an English-language school service centre, at least one person working in a vocational training centre or adult education centre, at least one person working in a private educational institution and at least one person from an Indigenous community.

The chief scientist, the Deputy Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports, the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, the Deputy Minister of Economy and Innovation and the president of the Conseil de l’enseignement supérieur, or any person each of them may designate, are to act as observers. They have the right to attend the meetings of the board and receive and keep the documents provided to board members. They have the right to speak, but not the right to vote.

2023, c. 32, s. 65.