Isaac Garcia-Sitton Archives | Faculty of Education /edu/tag/isaac-garcia-sitton/ Reinventing education for a diverse, complex world. Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:22:10 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2020/07/favicon.png Isaac Garcia-Sitton Archives | Faculty of Education /edu/tag/isaac-garcia-sitton/ 32 32 The Conversation: Canada identifies international students as 'ideal immigrants' but supports are lacking /edu/2022/11/10/the-conversation-canada-identifies-international-students-as-ideal-immigrants-but-supports-are-lacking/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:22:06 +0000 /edu/?p=33586 Isaac Garcia-Sitton, a Ph.D. student of Education: Language, Culture & Teaching at ¿ì²¥ÊÓÆµ, writes about the federal government identifying international students as a key source of talent for the growth and sustenance of the Canadian economy, and to address the skilled labour shortages.

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The question is not whether international students are needed, but rather if they are valued. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

The number of international students in Canada has over the last decade, contributing approximately , and an estimated in annual revenues to Canadian universities.

Pegged by the federal government as a key source of talent for the growth and sustenance of the Canadian economy, international students are sought to relieve our national demographic imbalance created by an .

°ä²¹²Ô²¹»å²¹â€™s also seeks international students to address our skilled labour shortages.

The question, however, is not whether international students are needed, but rather if they are valued.

Read the full article written by PhD candidate Isaac Garcia-Sitton on .

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