The aim of this new project is to make sure that Muslim students who are approached by CSIS have the ability to find out their rights before speaking to authorities.
Read more on the CBC website.
Author: Nicole
New manual for post-secondary institutions released by the FBI
China: The Risk to Academia is a new manual released by the FBI to help colleges and universities combat espionage on campus. It includes tips such as looking out for colleagues rummaging through others’ desks, monitoring visitors and to beware of others trying to exploit you.
Read more in the National Post.
New partnership agreement between ILAC and Georgian College
The first of its kind, according to the ILAC website.
Visit the ILAC website for more details.
Frosty US-China relations hits international education
Messy, messy. Waging a trade war against China when you are addicted to their cheap products is an iffy proposition in itself. But there are so many entanglements in this global era that what started as tariffs on steel and aluminum has spread into so many areas. And education is one of them! The State Department has made some slightly mixed comments on Chinese students studying in the US recently. To wade through the details, there is an interesting article in Inside Higher ed.
How universities can better support international students
Ali Najaf, a former international student in Canada, recently wrote an interesting artucle for University affairs on the main problems that international students have. He goes on to offer some suggestions on things post-secondary institutions can do to make students’ experiences change from good to remarkable.
Read the article in University Affairs.
Suicide and international students: a real but little discussed problem
This year, a coroner’s report from Australia determined that offshore students are more likely than their domestic peers to suddenly take their own lives. There have been at least 15 suicides amongst international students in British Columbia in recent years. The Vancover Sun recently ran a story on this issue and interviewed a number of current and former international students to ask them for their insights into the root of this problem.
Read more in the Vancouver Sun.
Exploitative higher education internationalisation is dead
The title says it all, doesn’t it? The writing makes it obvious that the author has spent most of their life living in the ivory tower of academia, but the article makes some important points.
Read the article in University World News.
Computer edition of CAEL to be delivered in China
In the summer, Paragon Testing (a subsidiary of the University of British Columbia) announced that it had signed an agreement with the National Education Examinations Authority of the Chinese Ministry of Education to deliver the Canadian Academic English Test in the People’s Republic of China.
UQAM develops app for new Canadians
The Universite du Quebec a Montreal is developing a new app to consolidate all the resources and services newcomers need into one place. The app will help newcomers find housing, sign their kids up for school, open a bank account and the like. The app is supposed to be ready in November this year.
Read more in the Montreal Journal (if you read French).
City councillor claims international students partly to blame for low vacancy rate
The city of Kingston in Ontario has an extremely low rental housing rate of 0.6%. While the city struggles to come up with a solution to the problem, one city councillor is arguing that an important factor that is being ignored is the large number of international students in the city.
Read more on Global News.