After his parents lost their jobs, international student Ashwath Param was left on his own to pay his high tuition and rent fees. With little job experience, he struggled to make any sufficient income and for two months straight, the only meals he could afford were instant ramen noodles, which he could only eat once every other day.
The University of Ottawa announced on Tuesday that 2020 spring and summer courses will still be offered, but will be carried out online via distance learning, due to the spread of COVID-19. They also revealed that a special emergency fund has been developed that students can access for financial support due to the pandemic.
Tuition for international students at the University of Ottawa will rise by 12 per cent in the fall semester, meaning students could pay anywhere from $3,305 to $5,925 more a year
The meeting will be held on May 27 in Tabaret Hall’s Senate Chamber
But if universities want to wear the badge of assisting non-status immigrants, they must consider the very real barriers that their advertised benefits may pose.
“Having students from all over the world means more diversity of thought, cultural exchange, and higher tuition f—I mean academic rigour.”—Jacques Frémont
Adding 10 extra faculty seats to the BOA would bring down our ratio to about 1,000 students per rep—not only giving students more representation, but giving students more chances to get involved.
The hardest part about being back in Ottawa is just moving on. It feels like things were on pause here while I was gone and now I have to pick everything back up where I left off.
On Nov. 18 the University of Ottawa hosted a delegation from Belgium’s Université catholique de Louvain, where the two schools officially introduced a new master’s double-degree in criminology.
“This is also one of the challenges of organizing graduate students on a campus because so much of the work that they end up doing—people work often exclusively in their labs and with a professor,” said Hunsdale. “The notion of student life isn’t quite the same.”
