New work rules may be too tempting for international students — and employers – New Canadian Media Source

Shubham Garg 28-year-old Indian international student was stabbed multiple times to his face, chest and abdomen at the corner of Pacific Highway and Gatacre Avenue Lane Cove in Sydney’s Artamon. After the incident, he sought assistance from a nearby house before being taken to Royal North Shore Hospital. Shubham underwent surgery and remains in a serious but stable condition. As per the reports about 10.30 pm on Thursday 6 October 2022 night Shubham Garg was walking along the Pacific Highway while returning to his place of residence. – Advertisement – North Shore Police Area Command detectives formed Strike Force Prosy to investigate…

Express News Service NEW DELHI: The issue of Australian visa backlog, particularly related to students seeking to return to educational institutions in the country following the coronavirus pandemic, would be resolved by the year-end, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said. “I want to tell you that it was something that I took up with different ministers when I was in Canberra. We have a particular problem that students are facing,” he said while speaking with the Indian community.Out of the 1.05 lakh Indian students studying in Australia, 77,000 have managed a visa and are back in the country.  With a…

Indians studying in economically developed countries are the most likely among all foreign students to stay back in their host country and join the local workforce, according to a report on international migration patterns by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report titled ‘International Migration Outlook 2022’, released on Monday, provides an overview of trends in international migration flows and policies up until 2021 by putting the spotlight on the countries of origin and destination of students signing up for academic degrees in OECD countries. The OECD is a grouping of predominantly developed economies. Students from China…

The government’s move to lift the 20-hour working cap for international students, while a step in the right direction, needs to go beyond using them as a temporary way to address Canada’s labour shortage, advocates say.Instead, the move needs to be made permanent and the first step toward making education equitable for everyone, says Alistair Kirk, an international representative for Canadian Federation of Students Ontario.”International students are more often than not seen as cash cows,” said Kirk, who’s also an international student studying at the University of Toronto.”I want the government to think about the livelihoods of international students — to know that the more unfair they treat us,…

At the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, recruitment efforts are focused on African countries where French is spoken. However, more than 80% of UQTR applicants from Francophone nations like Algeria and Cameroon are denied a study permit by the Canadian government. “We are able to attract students and grow, but it’s very frustrating that the level of effort required to actually enrol a student is very high,” UQTR rector Christian Blanchette told The PIE News in an interview. “We have to recruit far more students than we actually end up enrolling.” The study permit acceptance rate at UQTR is only…

Dilpreet Kaur’s parents were worried it would be difficult for her to find a job in her home state of Punjab, India, where her father toils long, lonely hours as a rice and wheat farmer. She, too, felt there was no future for her there.So last year, her dad sold two trucks for $28,000 and mortgaged the family’s land to raise money for her to come to Canada, rent a room in a shared apartment in Toronto’s east end and pay $16,000 in international tuition fees for the first year of a two-year college program.Kaur, 19, told CBC’s The Fifth…

Karan Singh says his parents decided to send their son to Canada because they thought he’d get into fights at home.The 20-year-old, who studies criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Surrey, B.C., hails from the tiny village of Bakipur in Haryana state, in northern India.He said his parents thought he’d be safer halfway across the world because of the turbulent political environment in India.”There are not a lot of opportunities available to the youth [if] we compare to Canada,” Singh said. “The political situation in Haryana at the moment is not very well.Singh is among hundreds of thousands of Indian students…

More than 33,000 Indian students study in Germany, according to DAAD India | Unsplash Despite more than 33,000 Indian students making Germany their study destination, concerns over fake papers, which include residential documents and language certificates remain among the members of the German Mission in India. The German Ambassador to India, Philipp Ackerman had stated in an interview that about 15% of such applications coming from Indian students were found to be forged, opening the latter up to more scrutiny during the review process. In a bid to address the concerns over such documents, while also suggesting changes and an…