Indian students in Canada more than double in a year
The first Canada-India Education Summit this week in Ottawa is set to boost research and educational ties between the two countries. With Canada reportedly registering more than a two-fold increase in Indian students this year from about 4000 last year, the two-day summit at Carleton University from June 17 will further boost enrolments from India. Top educationists and researchers from India and Canada will participate in roundtable discussions at the summit to be opened by Purundeshwari, Indian minister of state for human resources development. Canadian foreign affairs minister John Baird will deliver the plenary address. "It is the first-ever education summit between our two countries. It will lay the path forward to ensure that students and faculty move back and forth easily. Joint research, student exchanges and degree studies in the two countries are on our agenda,'' Carleton University president Roseanne O'Reilly Runte told IANS. She said, "Definitely, the