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Most of the Christmas break has been cancelled for students at Algonquin and La Cité colleges in Ottawa to make up coursework lost due to the province-wide faculty strike.

Students at both colleges will have about a week off at Christmas, with the remainder of the break used for classes, labs and clinical placements.

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The fall term will extend into January, although it’s not known yet by how many weeks, said a statement by La Cité.

La Cité has also cancelled its February study break, and Algonquin has warned students to avoid making travel plans because it may have to do the same.

The strike by 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians began Oct. 16.

Colleges are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure the academic year, but can’t make final plans because they don’t know how long the strike will last.

The changes to the school calendar will affect many students who planned to go home during breaks, have part-time jobs, or expected to graduate by January.