20-hour-per-week working restrictions are lifted for international students temporarily.
international students
Finding work for the summer is usually a cause of stress for university students of all programs. However, international students at U of O (and other Canadian universities) have it even harder.
The University of Ottawa has welcomed incoming international exchange students despite the cancellation of outgoing exchanges. Arriving in Ottawa in early January, these students have not had the ordinary exchange experience.
“The diversity that we’re given by the global Francophone community is integral and I think that we’re jeopardizing that by putting up more barriers to international students.” said Tim Gulliver, the UOSU’s advocacy commissioner.
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.”
In lieu of International Education Week, the Fulcrum talks about why so many Canadian students are hesitant to study outside of this country.
An incoming executive of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) says she’s going to work to get health coverage for a group of students who are often neglected on the University of Ottawa campus.
How one U of O association makes international students feel at home again.
New Government of Canada regulations make it easier for international students to work while in school, but do little to help with employment after graduation.
Of the more than 4,000 international students that will be studying at the U of O this year, more than 320 of them are registered in French programs. Last year, there were only 97.
It should come as no surprise that the university is slanting its admission incentives to help maintain the ever-diminishing Francophone presence in Canada.
If universities have one purpose, is it not to put us in contact with as many ideas and perspectives as possible? More intellectual and cultural diversity on campus will promote collaboration, awareness and tolerance of those around us.
