Post-pandemic recovery plans must include access to education for refugee students

Currently only three per cent of refugees access higher education. At a time when the UNHCR has set a lofty goal of increasing access to 15 per cent by 2030, internationalization has to be about more than revenue generation by student mobility.

The recovery from the pandemic is an opportunity for us to reconsider how internationalization in higher education reinforces the boundaries that limit our understanding of the connectedness in which we live, writes Melody Viczko.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY MELODY VICZKO

September 15, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought challenges for internationalization in Canadian higher education over the past year. Study permits issued for international students dropped by 22.3 per ...

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