More Canadian student visas for Indians
February 02 2010 by Liam Clifford
Numbers of students moving to Canada to take up courses has dramatically risen.
The number of Canadian
student visas granted to young people from India has doubled in response to a
successful scheme launched by the Canadian immigration department and the
Association of Canadian Community Colleges.
The Student Partners Program
was launched in April last year with the intention of increasing the number of
Canadian student visa approvals for Indian applicants looking to study at
Canadian colleges.
Some 4,000 Canadian student visa applications were
received from Indian students during the first nine months of the
scheme.
The success of the program was announced by Tim Uppal on behalf
of Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney. Kenney himself stated, “the
Student Partners Program has resulted in an increase in the number of Indian
students on our college campuses.”
He also outlined the advantages that
overseas students bring to the country and its educational institutions,
“international students bring with them new ideas and experiences and contribute
both financially and culturally to the communities and institutions where they
study.”
Since 1998, the number of international students studying in
Canada has more than doubled to 178,000. In addition, they contribute 83,000
jobs for Canadians and CA$6.5 billion to the economy.
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