Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

Programs Currently Accepting Applications

• Prix étudiant Lal Bahadur Shastri (competition prolongée jusqu’au 6 février 2012)
• Canadian Membership Development Fund 2011-2012
• Canadian Studies Programme Development Grant – Deadline February 15, 2012
• Scholar Travel Subsidy Grant – Deadline March 1, 2012

Indian students interested in studying in Canada may also visit Study in Canada for more informaiton.

IDRC President, Dr. David Malone gives Shastri Lester Pearson Memorial Lecture in New Delhi

Former Canadian High Commissioner to India and current president of the International Development Research Centre, Dr. David Malone spoke at the University of Delhi last Thursday, January 19th on “Indian Foreign Policy: An outsider perspective (with reference to Canada)” as this years Shastri Lester Pearson Memorial Lecture. WATCH FULL LECTURE

INDIA: New destinations for students heading abroad

For many years Indian students, the world’s largest group of overseas students after the Chinese, rarely looked beyond Britain, the US and Australia for higher education. But changes in visa rules, fraudulent institutions that prey on unsuspecting foreign students and lack of opportunities to work after graduation in the UK and US have prompted many students to seek newer, more welcoming destinations including Canada, Europe and Singapore. Read compete article by Alya Mishra in University World News…

Experiential learning provides the students self-reflective space and time

Veteran academician Indira Parikh, specialising in liberal education, stresses on the need towards building the liberal education system in India, in conversation with Ruchi Kumar.
See full story at The Times of India

Mumbai colleges are participating in a campaign organised to conserve and preserve water

See full story at The Times of India