international students

• Pandemic takes tragic toll on international students with rising deaths by suicide: report

  International students in Canada are being pushed to the brink during the COVID-19 pandemic, with mounting pressures leading to a rise in suicides, according to a new report.

  Education

  Apr 7
• Canada’s expanded travel restrictions too costly, say international students

  Some international students are deferring their trip back to Canada until travel restrictions are less costly. There are more than 344,000 international students studying in Canada

  Perspectives

  Mar 14
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• Coronavirus: Dalhousie reports positive COVID-19 case in Halifax residence

  Public Health is working to identify close contacts of the individual and, according to Dalhousie, "potential exposure risk in this case is low."

  Canada

  Jan 5
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• N.S. international students voice frustrations with policy to quarantine in hotel

  'Frankly, if it's not necessary for us to be in hotels, I don't have any interest in paying for that.'

  Canada

  Jan 5
• 23 Nova Scotia learning institutions permitted to welcome back international students

  The plan must ensure the health and safety of all students and the surrounding community is protected.

  Canada

  Nov 3, 2020
• Atlantic Canada universities seeing decline in student enrolment due to COVID-19

  Full-time enrolment is down 1.3 per cent over last year.

  Education

  Oct 30, 2020
• Nova Scotia to welcome international post-secondary students in early November

  International post-secondary students are expected to begin arriving over the next few months, starting in early November.

  Education

  Oct 27, 2020
• Canadian universities could lose millions, possibly billions due to coronavirus: StatCan

  In 2017-2018, foreign students alone paid about 40 per cent of all tuition fees.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2020
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• Teachers learn that remote learning for foreign students comes with geopolitical snags

  'The same curriculum that we could deliver privately in the classroom is now going to be subject to monitoring in countries around the world.'

  Education

  Oct 5, 2020
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• Enrolment at University of Saskatchewan up, on pace for highest ever

  Enrolment at the University of Saskatchewan is on pace to surpass 26,000 by the end of the school year in April 2021 — the highest ever at the institution.

  Education

  Sep 10, 2020