Canada works to welcome more Indian students to Canadian colleges
Written by CanAsia Admin on March 4, 2010 – 1:20 pm -The acceptance rate for Indian students coming to study at a group of Canadian colleges has doubled due to new SPP program.
A joint pilot project called the Student Partners Program was launched in April 2009 between Canada’s visa offices in India and twenty member colleges of the ACCC. The goal of the program is to increase the approval rate for study permit applications.
In 2008, India ranked seventh with 3,244 people in terms of source countries for students.
The total number of international students in Canada has more than doubled since 1998 to 178,000 and their presence provided employment for over 83,000 Canadians last year. A 2009 study commissioned by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada found international students contributed more than $6.5 billion to the Canadian economy in 2008.
“International students contribute to the cultural life and economic success of colleges and institutes and of the communities they serve. In partnership with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), we have doubled the approval rate of visas for students from India coming to Canadian colleges.
During the first nine months of the launch of the program, CIC’s visa offices in India received over 4,000 applications in the program. The program has successfully met its objective: the approval rate for the first group of students under the program coming to study this past September was more than double the approval rate for the same colleges the preceding year. Furthermore, 95 percent of the students remain in good standing at an ACCC college. Processing times within the program are faster than the global norm, with an average of about two and a half weeks.
The Government of Canada will continue to look at ways to encourage international students to study in Canada.
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By Harbachitter Pal Singh Dhillon on Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
sir,I have done graduation in non-medical stream with 63% and also clear the ilets test but in one module i get 4.5band in speaking.nOW I will go to canada or not.what i do ?