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Canadian
universities coming to woo Indian students
Monday November 08, 2010 11:37:11 AM,
Gurmukh Singh, IANS
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Toronto:
Presidents of 15 Canadian universities embark on a seven-day
mission to India Monday to woo students from the second fastest
growing nation in the world.
It is the biggest mission to India by Canadian educational
institutions after the two countries signed a memorandum of
understanding on higher education during Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh's visit here in June.
Though more than 150,000 Indian students go abroad for higher
education each year, Canada gets only about 3,000 annually.
Thus, Indian students account for a fraction of more than 90,000
foreign students who enrolled in Canadian universities last year.
With foreign students paying more than $15,000 in fees each and
collectively pumping more than $6.5 billion into the economy,
Canada is looking to a big jump in enrollment from India.
Organized by the Association of Universities and Colleges of
Canada (AUCC), the Canadian education mission will travel to Pune
and Delhi for meetings with educational institutions, the private
sector and administrators to usher in new era in ties in this
sector between the two nations.
Its major engagements in India include a roundtable with Indian
university presidents, which will also be attended by Indian human
resource minister Kapil Sibal and his Canadian counterpart Gary
Goodyear.
The mission will also participate in the higher education summit
being organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce
and Industry (FICCI).
"This mission is a way for us to get to know India and its needs
more deeply - and to make sure that when Indians think of research
and higher education, they think of us,'' said AUCC president Paul
Davidson before the mission's departure for India.
"Educators and business people in India need to know that Canadian
universities are open to building successful partnerships that
will enrich experiences for students, strengthen links between our
countries and advance international research collaboration,'' he
said.
(Gurmukh Singh
can be contacted at gurmukh.s@ians.in)
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