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B.C.’s 25 public
post-secondary institutions have more than 300 international agreements with
other schools, foreign governments and international consortia. These include
exchange agreements, credit transfer, contracts to deliver training, joint
delivery of programs, and sister institution agreements.
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This year, the Ministry
of Advanced Education has met or teleconferenced with delegations of
administrators from China, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the
Philippines and Vietnam to promote education links.
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The ministry has
distributed 2,700 promotional kits, focusing on B.C. as a study destination of
choice, to more than 80 Canadian trade commissioner offices abroad. These kits
are available in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish and
French.
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International students
at public post-secondary institutions in B.C. spent about $510 million in 2005,
generating an estimated 6,000 jobs.
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International education
creates a pool of potential immigrants who can help ease labour shortages.
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The B.C. government,
working with the federal government, has issued more than 2,800 off-campus work
permits to international students at public post-secondary institutions, which
allow eligible students to work off-campus up to 20 hours a week while classes
are in session, and full-time during breaks.
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International students
who have graduated from B.C.’s public post-secondary institutions and private
degree-granting institutions can apply to work in B.C. for up to two years
outside metro Vancouver, and up to a year in the
metro Vancouver area.
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According to the B.C.
Progress Board, many of B.C.’s overseas education partners say that Canada is
their country of choice for ESL training because it is seen as having an
unaccented and easily understood form of English.
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