IMMIGRATION AND EDUCATION
N. Van schools
may take overseas
students if...

By KATHY BRENNAN

Foreign students may be
admitted into North Van-
couver schools’ provided
they bear the cost of their
education and cause no
social burden.

North Vancouver School
Board Tuesday temporarily
postponed a policy proposal
io outhne the admission of
non-Canadians into the
public school system.

In an amendment
preceding the _ post-
ponement, Trustee David

Craig said foreign students
should be accepted as long
as their education costs do
not fall on local taxpayers,
the distnct has enough
facilines and the students
don’t create an undue social
burden.

The board also proposed

landed immigrants be
granted the same
educauonal privileges” as
Canadians.

As well, the suggested
pohcy would grant per-

mission to Children of adults
holding employment visas to
attend school for a limited
penod of time.

Foreign students wsiting
relatives or fmends for a
limited period of time would
also be permitted to attend
school as a visitor.

The school, in that case
however, would not be
expected to assume the
responsibility for in-
struction, evaluation and
reporting of progress.

FIRST POLICY

Up unul now, the district
has followed a set of
procedures without wnitten
pohcy on landed = im-
migrants, visitors with visas,
non-Canadians with em-
ployment visas and students
with visas

Landed immigrants have
been accorded the same
rights and = privileges as
Canadians said a wnitten
administrative Ceport to the
board

Those with saisitors visas
cannot seen employment or

altend se howl said

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It said some people may
use the visa as a launching
pad to get an education in
this country and eventually
“more suitable immigration
clearance.”

The district ordinarily
grants admission to children
of those with employment
visas, it said.

Student visas are usually
given by the immigration
department if the student
can get permission to enroll
from a specific school in
Canada.

The report said the district
normally refuses this per-
mission to all applicants on
the grounds that the im-
migration department not
the school distmct should
decide on entry

In addition. the ministry
of educauon has recom-
mended districts not get
involved with the = im-
Migration process, it said.

And finally, the district
acts on “the advice (pnvately
given’ of immigration
department officials, — who
indicate that they have little
choice under existing
legislation once we agree to
admit a Student,” it said.

ENORMOUS PROBLEMS

Admitting these students
to North Vancouver schools
would create “enormous”
administrative problems to
the district, superintendent
Rod Wickstrom said at the
meeting.

Wickstrom told the board
that once a student gets
wnitten permission to enter a
school the immigration
department can't stop the
student’ from coming into
Canada.

“] gather the major aim
here ts to stop people from
circumventing the  im-
migration process.” — said
trustee Don Burbidge.

“Whatever we may think

of the immigration policies °

of the federal government,
as a school board I chink we
have to fall in line with the
policy |

No date has been set for
further discussion oof the

Proposed polis

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