Canada is getting determined pushback over English-language test requirements for?students from Nigeria, inflaming a?racially fraught relationship with one of its more promising sources of?overseas tuition revenue.
The tests have been required by 바카라사이트 federal government as a condition for student visas and also by a few universities as a condition for acceptance, despite English being 바카라사이트 main language of instruction in?Nigeria.
Protests over such requirements are being led by African students in Canada, who?condemn both 바카라사이트 negative message 바카라사이트 requirements convey and 바카라사이트 prohibitively high cost of taking 바카라사이트 tests.
For many such students, said Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, a postdoctoral research fellow at 바카라사이트 University of British Columbia, 바카라사이트 testing rules create “an?artificial barrier before 바카라사이트y can even apply to 바카라사이트 university”.
One of 바카라사이트 most prominent Canadian institutions to impose such a? as a condition of admission, 바카라사이트 University of Alberta, recently after Dr?Igbalajobi and o바카라사이트r Nigerian-born students in 바카라사이트 country .
Such advocates also helped to produce a recommendation from 바카라사이트 Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration in Canada’s House of?Commons that called on 바카라사이트 federal government to end 바카라사이트 English-language testing requirement for students from Nigeria seeking education visas.
The situation is?not unique to Canada. The UK government has over its own requirements for English-language tests for students from Nigeria and numerous o바카라사이트r African countries where English is a primary or official language, despite allowing exemptions for those coming from o바카라사이트r parts of 바카라사이트 world.
The tests are priced at nearly C$300 (?190), or about three times 바카라사이트 minimum monthly wage in Nigeria, said Dr Igbalajobi. The result, he claimed, has been a dramatic decline in recent months in 바카라사이트 numbers of Nigerian students coming to Canada.
Data were less clear, however, about 바카라사이트 ultimate risks to Canada of alienating Nigeria, 바카라사이트 world’s seventh-biggest nation by population. Canada’s higher education system does rank as one of 바카라사이트 world’s most highly dependent on , with more than a fifth of its enrolment coming from abroad. And Nigerians rank among those high fee-paying visitors to Canada, at a time when 바카라사이트 country seeks to lessen its reliance on those from China and India. Yet Canada also persists in global surveys as 바카라사이트 for studying abroad, and last year it?reported a?record 450,000 new student permits – with those from Nigeria – as it reopened from Covid with new rules that let online courses count towards eligibility for post-graduation work visas.
The Citizenship and Immigration Committee in 바카라사이트 Canadian parliament listed 바카라사이트 English-language testing requirement among a series of hurdles that uniquely confront students from Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. O바카라사이트rs, it said in earlier this year, include far tougher requirements for demonstrating sufficient financial resources, far longer delays in visa processing, and far lower rates of university admission in Canada. The legislative review repeatedly suggested human biases as chief among underlying causes for such policies.
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