In an interview with WENR, Larissa Bezo, President and CEO of CBIE, discusses Canada’s international education challenges, key survey findings, and strategies for supporting international students. As a GLOW ED award recipient, she shares her vision for the sector’s future.
Policy changes in Canada impacting international students have sparked concerns among students and educators alike.
Medical education in North America is increasingly being outsourced overseas. Offshore Medical Universities have become commonplace in the Caribbean. Increasing numbers of physicians now receive their basic medical education at overseas schools that have less stringent admission requirements and operate under different regulations and quality assurance standards than medical schools in the U.S. and Canada.
Higher education in South Asia has become increasingly privatized. India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka all have a growing presence of non-state actors in education.
One-fifth of all active doctors in the U.S. and Canada are trained overseas. This article provides a brief overview of the long-cycle medical programs many of them followed.