To ensure equity for international students, Canada commits to enacting new rules for their betterme
To attract, aid, and protect international students that are coming to or are already in Canada, the Canadian house of commons standing committee on citizenship and Immigration urged the Canadian authorities to undertake some measures and IRCC has also responded to the latest announcement.
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The Canadian house of commons standing committee on citizenship and Immigration is a governmental committee and it conducts research based on immigration and citizenship in Canada. It aims to monitor the country's multiculturalism policy. Many students are still placed in disadvantageous and vulnerable situations owing to a number of reasons in Canada.
Report focused on three main objectives in relation to international students which includes attracting more international students to study in Canada, ensuring equity in the international student program and improving service and communication for international students.
IRCC responded to the report by focusing on the measures that can be taken and to improve the already existing measures and so covering each individually with the aim of reducing vulnerabilities and aiding international students through the permit application, study, and settlement process are some of the measures that are focused upon.
The number of study permit holders is set to increase to approximately 753,000 international students according to recent data, from 2022 to 2023. CIMM still raised concern over the fact that applications from certain countries and populations are still not given adequate consideration by the department and the IRCC has committed to explore expansion of the student direct stream (SDS) to specific Asian, African and French-speaking countries and the SDS is a fast-track stream for obtaining a study permit for candidates from 14 countries.
It also said that it plans to investigate the rate of study permit rejections, destined for Quebec through establishing a working group between the minister de Immigration, de la Franc Integration (MIFI) and IRCC. Maintain and re-assess the scope of the Nigeria Student Express (NSE) stream, a study permit stream created to aid students applying from Nigeria and exploring how to best promote the transition to permanent residence for international students, particularly those with the skills, experience and all.
To ensure equity in the international student program and application processes the CIMM also highlighted a number of potential initiatives. IRCC committed to reviewing its practices and ensuring equity throughout the International Student Program (ISP) by Continuing to include questions pertaining to accessibility, race, and gender; Establish a Dis-0aggregated Data and Analytics Framework (DDAF).
Dis-aggregated data is data that has been filtered to understand specific relationships that it holds, based on demographic characteristics; to better understand how (for example) a specific group of people is impacted by a particular policy or phenomenon. Exploring patterns and determinants of social well-being on immigration cohorts, with a focus on different racial groups and review the selection process for international students, and evaluate students on criteria more linked to their potential value and improving client service and communication.
IRCC has responded by highlighting the recent hiring of 1,250 new processing staff by late fall 2022 to assist with processing capacity and committing to work with designated learning institutions (DLIs) to implement collection of enrollment and status information data about international students and DLIs will submit data elements to IRCC for real-time processing and expressing interest in continuing with initiatives like the 2022 pilot program.
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