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Indian students in Canadian province take to the streets over tightening immigration rules
(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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It depends on what they study. I know of some that come for agriculture-related degrees which are just worthless in a totally different climate. "Canada educated" comes with a lot of prestige back home, though, and they have the money, so they come anyway.
True to an extent - the methods don't change all that much. The same is true for medicine and architecture. But I'm guessing the vast majority are in engineering, which is more or less universal.
Actually, the ones the government has cracked down on most are business degrees. They're the cheapest to deliver so they've been used as an (often needed) cash cow by educational institutions. That's probably more useful than learning the frost tolerance of a crop you don't even grow at home, or treatment of temperate pests, but it's not engineering.
I see. That makes a lot of sense. India has a small number of IIMs (national business universities), so they are very hard to get into. And unlike most other government unis, they are also very expensive (can't have the peons getting uppity). So many Indian parents with more money than sense send their children to degree mills in other countries that no one in the host country has even heard of.
Yep. That's the situation here I think.
This is the first anti-immigrant policy of any kind Canada's put in place for a long time, and people are rightfully worried because of that. The thing is, we just have an absolutely insane housing shortage, and so the government has to be seen shoring up immigration somehow, or it will be vulnerable in the upcoming election.