The European Research Council (ERC) will award €624 million in Advanced Grants to researchers who win the competition in 2021. The money will be handed to a total of 253 distinguished European academics, according to a news release issued by the European Research Council. In response to the most recentContinue Reading
International students in Australia will be unable to change their subject of study unless they obtain permission from the Minister, according to the new Australian visa criteria. The Australian government, according to NRI Affairs, has modified the Migration Act 1958, and the restrictions for Australian student visa (subclass 500) holdersContinue Reading
The strike and lockout at the University of Lethbridge technically concluded at midnight on Tuesday, but the consequences of the almost six-week work stoppage are influencing how the rest of the semester will unfold. Students will return to class on Wednesday morning after being absent since February 10. What wasContinue Reading
It seemed eerily similar to 2012 in downtown Montreal Tuesday afternoon, when over 1,000 students marched through the streets demanding free university tuition. The protest came ten years to the day after the largest protest of the 2012 Maple Spring. Montreal students went again on strike, this time donning redContinue Reading
Stakeholders have heard that international students play a “important role” in Canada and that it is critical that the country remains a “top destination of choice” for “extraordinarily gifted individuals.”During a plenary speech at ApplyBoard’s Educate the World Conference – Canada, Canadian Minister for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Sean Fraser,Continue Reading
Among the two winners are researchers working on battery technology. A sociologist who specialises in equity issues in education and employment, as well as a renowned cardiologist who has expanded our understanding of the societal and biologic causes of heart disease, are among five Canadian researchers who have been awardedContinue Reading
Today, the Saskatchewan government established a first-of-its-kind initiative in Canada to provide international education training to the post-secondary education industry. The International Education Practitioner Program is a critical component of the newly developed International Education Strategy. This training programme will help the postsecondary education sector increase capacity while also boostingContinue Reading
Collège Boréal, CEWIL Canada, NSS Canada, and Dynamic Earth announced Tuesday that they will collaborate to start “Projet MOSS” in Sudbury, Ontario, this winter. The Miner Operated Survey System (MOSS) is a piece of underground surveying software that works with a variety of Leica robotic total stations. When performing mark-ups,Continue Reading
Every day seems like you’re in a nightmare that you’re trying to wake up from,’ students say. Russian foreign students studying at post-secondary institutions in Canada are struggling to make ends meet as financial sanctions devastate their country’s economy. At the same time, they are torn as they watch aContinue Reading
Since the second week of February, around 500 members of the University of Lethbridge faculty association have been on strike. Students are becoming increasingly concerned about the implications of a prolonged strike for their future. “We are a destination university, and a lot of students come from out of town;Continue Reading