Universities Canada pledges to support Vietnamese students
Ottawa (VNA) – The Association of
Universities and Colleges of Canada (Universities Canada) has pledged to
support Vietnamese students amid the complicated developments of COVID-19 in
the host country, during the recent phone talks with Nguyen Huong Tra, Charge d'Affaire of
the Vietnamese Embassy in Canada.
The
Canadian side said it will carry out a lot of assistance measures such as
allowing Vietnamese students to stay at the dormitories till the end of the
school year and providing medical support.
Students
who got a job after graduation but are now unemployed due to COVID-19 will be
certified by schools to receive subsidies from the host government’s emergency
assistance packages while waiting for support from other financial resources, if
they complete some required credits.
Particularly, schools pledged to create favourable conditions for Vietnamese
students who plan to visit Canada for summer courses from May to June to study online training programmes. Students will get credits as they do at
school.
Meanwhile,
the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will have policies to help students,
foreign workers, and tourists make online visa extension.
Vietnam ranks first
in Southeast Asia in the number of students in Canada, with over
20,000.
According
to the Canadian government, as of 11am on April 10 (local time), the country
reported 21,243 COVID-19 cases, including 531 deaths./.