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International, Aboriginal student enrolments rise at uRegina

posted on May 29, 2013

Source: Academica Compared to the winter 2012 semester, the University of Regina has seen an increase of 183 new first-year international undergraduate students, which represents a 22% increase. Currently, uRegina has more than 1,000 registered international undergraduate students. The university has also seen a rise in the number of international students pursuing master’s and doctoral [...]

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Indian Summer in Vancouver: July 4-13

posted on June 17, 2013

Source: Connect – Canada in India The Indian Summer Festival in Vancouver kicks off with a culinary tour of India with local chef, Vikram Vij, on July 4. Other highlights of the ten-day festival include: conversations with Indian cinema icon and humanitarian Shabana Azmi and Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, a health and well-being weekend focussing on [...]

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MOU facilitates faculty and student exchanges

posted on June 17, 2013

Source: Connect – Canada in India India’s GITAM University recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Canada’s University of Windsor to enable short and long-term faculty and student exchanges (including a dual degree program for under-graduate students), collaborative research, teaching and engagement, and offer research based innovative academic programs.

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Indian innovators receive global attention

posted on June 17, 2013

Source: Connect – Canada in India Three Indian innovators were among the 20 finalists who got a chance to participate in the C2-MTL conference in Montreal, Canada. This conference, which explored the relation between commerce and creativity, provided the participants with a platform to explain their innovations to top industry leaders from around the world and [...]

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Celebrating World Environment Day with special workshop for children in Delhi

posted on June 17, 2013

Source: Connect – Canada in India Over a 100 children between the ages of eight and 12 years participated in a special workshop on June 4 at the High Commission of Canada in Delhi, to mark World Environment Day. The workshop, held in collaboration with the ECO Roots non-governmental organisation (NGO), encouraged children to preserve [...]

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Higher education drives economic growth

posted on October 16, 2012

Source: www.dnaindia.com, Mumbai, March 2011 The second annual convention for Higher Education Forum (HEF) was held at ITM Business School, Kharghar. Two technical sessions were organized in partnership with DNA for educationists to share their thoughts and understanding on the topic “Towards Excellence in Higher Education”. A common consensus was reached that excellence mattered more [...]

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Canada lures Indian Entrepreneurs with New ‘Startup Visa’

posted on June 10, 2013

Source: Silicon India via Indian Economic Business News The Canadian government has launched attractive schemes and provisions, to lure potential Indian entrepreneurs who are struggling to get their green cards or trying to extend their H- 1B visas in the United States, as per a report by Business Insider. Mr. Jason Kenney, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, [...]

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India still hot investment hub: Deloitte

posted on January 23, 2013

Source: Business Standard via Indian Economic Business News India remains an attractive investment destination, even as taxation uncertainties pose a challenge, according to global consultancy Deloitte. “While India continues to be an attractive investment destination, the dynamic Indian tax framework creates some apprehensions in the investors’ perception about the approach on the tax issues related [...]

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