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260: 84: 204:, with Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan adopting Ontario's parallel school system in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. However, after the parallel system was ended in those provinces, the majority of institutions that were designated as collegiate institutions were closed, or renamed. However, several secondary schools in Western Canada continue to use the term 144:
It was quite quickly realized that the division did not work very well. Over time, high schools responded to students' needs and increasingly offered the arts courses that were essential for the workforce. At the same time, as universities began teaching science and engineering, so did the collegiate
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referred to secondary institutions that offered vocational and science programs for those planning to enter the workforce upon graduation. While the parallel school system was in place, secondary institutions could only be elevated to the status of a collegiate institutes when it reached the
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in several provinces in Canada. However, the term has since transformed as a synonym for an institution that provides secondary education. The term is most prominent in Ontario, although the term was also used in several other areas in Canada.
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institutes. Within a decade, the distinctions between the two systems were greatly blurred, and eventually, the two systems were merged in to a single secondary school system. After the merger of the two systems in Ontario, the terms
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institutions (in 1833 and 1900, respectively), but the latter would drop its college curriculum and exist as a college preparatory school from 1902 to 1918, which demonstrates the flexibility of the term
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systems in Ontario. After the parallel streams were merged into one stream, the term continues to see use in Ontario, used to refer to any secular public institution that provides secondary education.
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originally referred to a distinct type of secondary school within the province's parallel streams of secondary education. The parallel school system was not extended to the
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to represent their nature and mission more accurately, and the term "collegiate institute" would see little use after the early 20th century.
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Two examples of collegiate institutes in the United States before the term fell out of use are the Oberlin Collegiate Institute of
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which were academically orientated with a goal to prepare pupils for college and university admission.
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prescribed number of teachers, and students; and when it fully complies with the standards set the
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were all used synonymously with one another to refer to an institution of secondary education.
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was the first secondary institution elevated to a collegiate institute, in 1871.
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The term has fallen out of use throughout most of North America, except in the
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holds some ambiguity, many such schools would later change their names to use
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Region of Waterloo Public Building Inventory: Educational Buildings Part 2
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Pentecostal Collegiate Institute at the Rhode Island campus, c. 1905
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The prominence of the term varies dependent on the area. In some
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set up two parallel secondary education systems that included
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Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950
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A collegiate school is a term adopted by some older
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Index

Collegiate Institute
secondary
post-secondary education
Canadian province
Ontario
western Canada
secondary school

Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
separate school
Ontario
high school
university
Department of Education
Galt Collegiate and Vocational Institute
school boards
Lakehead District School Board
Toronto District School Board
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
Western Canada
Lethbridge Collegiate Institute
Lethbridge
Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute
Winnipeg
Prince Albert
Saskatoon
Regina

United States
colleges

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