More Indian students needs to be attracted by Canadian immigration

In order to better the long-term diplomatic relations with India, Canada needs to increase its spending on advertising to attract more number of Indian students to the country as it seems that the country is losing on students from India.

A study titled “A new direction for the Canada-India relationship” which has been authored by Professor Ryan M. Touhey has revealed that the worth of international education industry is around $300 Billion. He said that Canada is not able to earn as much from the market as other wealthy countries are doing.

More than twenty five thousand Indian students are welcomed by the UK every year, about eighty thousand are welcomed by the United States of America and come forty thousand are taken by Australia. When we look at these numbers, arrival of just four thousand Indian students to Canada every year seems too less.

Canadian High Commission sent as little as $50,000 in Delhi, India, in 2007-08 for advertisement educational institutions in Canada.

Touhey said that the figure is absolutely pathetic and goes on to say that Canadian immigration department needs to learn a lesson or two from Australia, a country which increased the number of Indian students studying there immensely from just three hundred in 1994 to almost forty thousand in 2008. These wonderful figures were achieved by Australia by making use of their campaign “Brand Australia” which was initiated by the Australia India Council.

There are some long-term political benefits as well as some short-term economic benefits of increasing the number of Indian students to the country.