Some students are considering delaying their courses, while others are assessing whether higher education could become a collateral damage of the current diplomatic crisis between Canada and India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau upon his arrival at the Bharat Mandapam convention centre for the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 9.Canadian universities are reassuring Indian students of their safety and offering resources to deal with the uncertainty triggered by the diplomatic crisis between the two countries as they seek to limit the fallout on a booming business.
David McKinnon: The India debacle should prompt Canada to rethink the naive way we engage with the world Reuters spoke to more than a dozen universities and consultants in Canada and India who said they were taking measures to reassure students. Ashok Kumar Bhatia, President of Association of Consultants for Overseas Studies said many Indian students are worried about their safety in the backdrop of heightened diplomatic tensions.Kitchener, Ontario-based Conestoga College’s President John Tibbits noted about a hundred students out of the thousands that enroll every year were inquiring about deferring their course and current students want to attend classes online.
York University’s President Rhonda Lenton, who was in India when the news broke, expressed confidence the two governments will resolve the situation. Taxi-driver Jiwan Sharma is contemplating whether it is the right call for his son to board the flight to Canada he booked recently.
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